Seville, 1922. Marquise Elena de Valmonte spends hours in the stoves next to the service turning her energy into her great passion, cooking, while feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage to Adolfo, her authoritarian husband. One night, after offering one of their famous dinners, Elena and Cecilia, their faithful maiden, are involved in an unfortunate incident that will change their lives forever.

Elena stands up to Don Benito in relation to the restaurant's debts, and the mobster agrees to give him some more time to pay. Julio has got a magazine to make a report about the restaurant to attract customers, but Elena doesn't want to be photographed so as not to compromise her true identity.