拉丁美洲的作品常常带着魔幻荒诞的色彩，影片故事正是发生在这里的墨西哥。艾莲娜是一个抚养三个女儿的寡妇，她的小女儿蒂娜（卢米·卡范佐斯 Lumi Cavazos饰）和青年佩德罗（马克·莱昂纳蒂 Marco Leonardi饰）相爱，但母亲却按照家族规矩，要把大女儿柔沙嫁给佩德罗，同时声明蒂娜要照顾自己直到归西。 　　佩德罗和柔沙结婚了。婚礼上，他向蒂娜吐露爱意，让蒂娜更加心伤。她的眼泪簌簌掉下，落到正在制作的菜肴上，于是，客人们竟然尝出了苦味。从此，蒂娜把自己压抑的爱意都融合在烹饪中，一家人的情绪竟随着她的烹饪心情或情欲高涨，或压抑阴沉。当蒂娜终于等来和佩德罗相守的日子，压抑已久的感情却化成了熊熊燃烧的烈火。

In the film, a team of Special Forces commandos are in the middle of an operation when they’re abducted by a mysterious spacecraft. When they wake up aboard the ship, they quickly discover they are being hunted by a merciless alien race.

本剧改编自直木赏获奖作家井上荒野在岛清恋爱文学赏的获奖作品，描述了充满着神秘气息的身无居所的无业主人公润一和从16岁至62岁的拥有各种背景的女性们之间的瞬息之爱。

Followed by Tony Towers, he's a local celebrity, a successful nightclub manager and he is engaged to a younger woman, Sue. Things get a little strange when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion.