"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de México desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prácticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dejó paralítica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos años después en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli se asentó e hizo una familia tras la muerte de Frida, la nieta de ésta descubre un secreto que puede cambiarle la vida: la existencia de un misterioso cuadro donde su abuela es la protagonista, pero cuyo autor se desconoce."--Back cover. Nayeli, a young Tehuana who has run away from home, arrives in Mexico City helpless. Thanks to her wonderful skills in the kitchen, she finds a place in the Casa Azul, where Frida Kahlo lives practically isolated since the fatal accident that left her paralyzed. Between flavors, aromas and colors, the painter and her new cook begin a friendship that profoundly marks the destiny of both. Many years later in Buenos Aires, where Nayeli settled and raised a family after Frida's death, her granddaughter discovers a secret that could change her life: the existence of a mysterious painting in which her grandmother is the protagonist, but whose author it is unknown.
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