Amas de casa desesperadas

In a beautiful afternoon in the sunny street of Manzanares, the wife, mother and housewife Alicia Oviedo ended her apparently perfect life. Now, from death, she observes the life and intimate secrets of her four best friends and neighbors: Susana, Lía, Vera and Gabriela. Susana, a single, divorced mother, feels attraction for Miguel Delfino, a newcomer to Manzanares; Lía, who’s been before marrying a successful businesswoman, is stressing beyond words because of her 4 completely out of control sons; Vera, a perfectionist housewife, makes her whole family go crazy; And Gabriela, the runway model who turned into a perfect wife, lives an affair with her 17-year-old gardener. Together, this four Friends, want to solve the mystery that took Alicia to commit suicide.

Susana finally gets a date with Miguel, but soon she finds competition from Carla, the man-whore of Manzanares. Carlos, Gabriela’s husband, is starting to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Despite a visit to couple’s therapy, Ricardo decides that he can no longer live with Vera and leaves her. One night, René, Alicia’s son, sees his father unburying a mysterious trunk underneath their pool.

Susana convinces the other three to move on with the arrangements for the big dinner party that Alicia was planning to carry on before her suicide. Vera, the hostess per excellence, accepts to host the event at her home. Later, when Susana’s ex-husband comes by to visit, things end with a discussion and with Susana naked on her front garden. At the same time, Gabriela is being extorted by the least expected blackmailer.

Mrs. Hidalgo, a nosy neighbor, decides that Susana was the cause of Carla being abruptly without a house and starts to blackmailer her. Completely overthrown by her sons, Lía resorts to pills, even though she is against them. Gabriela’s struggles to hide her affair bring unexpected consequences for her jealous husband.

To Gabriela’s horror, Carlos’ mother comes to Manzanares to spend time with them, and that complicates her intentions to reunite with Juan. After a thief enters the house where Susana is taking care of a cat, she is invited to a date by one of the policemen assigned to the case. Lia tries to make her sons to be accepted into a new exclusive private school. Vera, visiting the Oviedo’s household, establish a quick, but special bond with René.

Susana finds out that René is in a psychiatric hospital and makes her daughter Julieta sneak into the hospital to speak with him. Gabriela’s attempt to blackmail her mother in law have unexpected results. Lía has friction with Ángeles del Campo, a mother of the rival Barklif College. During a session of couple’s therapy, Ricardo confess to Vera that he is not happy with their sex life: she decides to surprise him in a hotel.