Prólogos

A 29 year-old Cari has just arrived in Cádiz, España. She enters the restaurant where she is assigned to have a presentation the next day. A sudden feeling of nostalgia engulfs her when she hears the song Donde Voy. Her mind drifts back to the early 1990s, when so much happened that changed her life. 

Cari, Addison, and Oliv are best of friends. They enjoy a blissful bond and they are inseparable. One day Oliv's father gets promoted at work and her family has to move to New York. The three are very sad and they spend the last day together at the riverside where they usually spend time after school. They promise that one day they will meet again at the same place and that Oliv's migration won't change their friendship. Cari and Addison exchange letter with Oliv every month. 

One lunch break the two are having lunch. Addison mentions about her boyfriend and says she is pregnant. She is only 15 and her boyfriend broke up with her when he heard about the pregnancy. Cari tries to comfort her and tells her everything will be alright. The next day Addison commits suicide. Cari is devastated and traumatized. 

Cari goes to university and studies Archaeology. One day while having a biological anthropology class, she receives a message that her grandmother died. She is just speechless. Her grandmother's burial is full of agony. She experiences nightmares for months.  

As she is turning 20, she is set to inherit part of her grandmother's fortune and 4 big restaurants that have been running for decades. But first she is required to work voluntarily for a year in one of those restaurants. The Will also states that should she fail to volunteer, she loses everything. 

Few months later her parents go abroad and she is left with her younger brother and aunt. She graduates from University and works at the restaurant. She also applies for a job related to her major but later on she realizes that she is not interested with it at all. 

She now receives her over-all inheritance. Not knowing what to do with her life next, she just enjoys her time. She takes trips, she gambles, and hangs out with new associates and gradually spends the money she has. Without a growing interest for business, she gives authority to her younger brother, who happens to be a chef, to manage her restaurants. 

Oliv gets married and Cari feels even lonelier. Her life seems stuck. She struggles through failed romances, bouts of depression, insecurities and she resorts to alcohol and becomes addicted. She also develops a distant relationship with her parents and she never listens to them. She confides to no one because she doesn't trust anybody anymore, even herself. She gets desperate and her life becomes miserable day by day. 

One late afternoon when she is drunk, she goes to the riverside. She thinks about how her life has become in just a short time. She has means to enjoy but she isn't contented with everything. It begins to rain and she sobs as she walks home. She stops in front of one of her granny's restaurant. She stares at it for a very long time. She remembers that as a child, her granny would ask her to bring tea for their guests and she liked the job very much. Later she decides to study culinary. 


As a student, she isolates herself from others. She is hesitant to talk. As she wanders through the street on her way home, so many things occupy her mind. She wants to release the sad soul that has been pulling her down for a long time. She wants to find  real happiness. She wants to search for the missing piece that seems to make her feel empty all the time. But her quest isn't going to be easy.