'Eliza Lynch - Queen of Paraguay' tells the story of Irishwoman Eliza Lynch, the "Queen of Paraguay” in a story of hunger, war and wealth, of family, love, tragedy and loss. The documentary focuses on the love story between Eliza, heroine of Paraguay, and the President Francisco Solano Lopez. Even though Lynch was born in Charleville, County Cork in 1833, she was considered the most famous woman in all of South America in the 19th Century. Based on 18 years of original research in 10 countries by two Irishmen, the film documents her unique love story; how Eliza met in Paris in 1854 the son of the President of Paraguay, Francisco Solano Lopez then, at 28, a mega-rich, intelligent diplomat- General (she was 20); how she became his uncrowned Queen of Paraguay, how, though they never married, she bore him seven children, how, though she had several opportunities to escape with her children, she stuck by him through unending disasters throughout the unspeakable horrors of the War of 1864 until his death in the last battle in 1870 and how she continued to love him until she herself died in lonely circumstances in Paris in 1886. Eliza Lynch became the National Heroine of her adopted country, Paraguay. Eliza epitomised the heroic struggle of the Paraguayan people in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864 to 1870 against the combined forces, the Triple Alliance, of giant Brazil, huge Argentina and smaller Uruguay.