Como Água para Chocolate

A magical and timeless romance, it tells the story of the women of the De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest, is forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to care for her mother until the end of her days. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, irrevocably transforming everyone's lives. Faced with this impossible love, Pedro decides to marry Rosaura, Tita's sister, as it is the only way to stay close to his beloved. And for twenty-two years, Tita and Pedro live under the same roof, dominated by their unconsummated passion. The young couple communicate and seduce each other through the food that Tita prepares with the devotion and audacity of a desperate woman. Around her recipes, the family unites, cooking and seasoning loves and heartbreaks, laughter and tears, celebrating the triumph of joy and life over sadness and death. Until the day the lovers' devotion is put to the test and their destiny is finally fulfilled. Through the forbidden love of Tita and Pedro, Laura Esquivel portrays rural Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century and weaves an unforgettable hymn to the pleasure of the senses and the creative freedom of women.