Flor Moreno is a poor, Mexican single mother who is hired as the housekeeper for a rich American family in Los Angeles: John and Deborah Clasky, their kids Bernice and Georgie, and Deborah\';;s alcoholic mother Evelyn Wright. A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.