Violeta, Clara and Mariel write love letters to Lucas. The letters are anonymous and the authorship is shared, until the catechism teacher, who has the four of them as students, finds one of them and reads it aloud.

Medea is banished from the kingdom she had arrived in years before, married to Jason. In her wanderings, she ventures into desolate lands and encounters other tragic heroines who help her devise her plan of revenge.