With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.

Una mujer de provincias conoce a un francés y se casa con él. Sin embargo, tras ello, descubre en sí misma pasiones que desconocía y tiene escarceos eróticos con el panadero, el médico, el farmacéutico...