Madrid 1920s, Marquise Elena de Valmonte explores her passion for cooking, as a means for evading her authoritarian husband. An incident makes her and maid Cecilia fugitives. They reopen an abandoned restaurant as 'La Favorita Bistro'.

A hot-headed football star has it all until a fight gets him benched and assigned a new tutor: a reclusive academic who'll teach him to face his fears.