Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

In a town where the children are set up in arranged marriages, Samantha is set up but she flees to the capital. Years later she returns to the town with her husband only to be attacked by the ex-fiance. What follows is a tale of vengeance.