A resident of the small town of Salvador in the vicinity of Bahia, Floripedes Paiva Guimaraens, a young mistress of the Taste and Art cooking school, becomes a widow. Her husband Valdomiro, nicknamed Gulyaka, a drunkard, a gambler, a womanizer and a merry fellow, dies in the color of years at the height of the carnival from a broken heart. Don Flor is inconsolable: all seven years that they were together, she suffered from his betrayals, but no one could give her as much love and passion as Gulyak, to whom she forgave all his antics.
Mourning her husband, Don Flor recalls the story of his life and love.
Her mother, Don Rosilda, stubborn to stupor, a sharp and domineering person, with whom no one can get along under one roof, after the death of her husband remains with three children - two daughters and a son - without any means. With the help of Rosalia and Flor, beautiful, hardworking and modest girls, the ambitious Rosilda hopes to change her fate and gain a position in society. However, Rosalia does not marry a handsome prince, but a simple mechanic, and the heart of the bashful and chaste Flora, who, despite her mother’s wrath, rejects all rich suitors and conquers Gulyak.
Rosilda is convinced that Valdomiro has a solid post and is friends with the most influential people in the city. She hopes he will make an offer to Flor.But when Rozilda finds out that Gulyaka has deceived her and that he is a petty municipal official, a player and a brothel regular, she forbids her daughter to even think about him. But Flor is already in love and she does not care that Gulyaki has a penny for his soul.
Despite her mother’s threats and even beatings, she continues to meet with Gulyaka and surrenders to him, after which she runs away from home and becomes his wife.
The money that she earns by giving culinary art lessons is enough for a modest life, as well as for paying off the debts of her dissolute husband, and since she cannot have children, she does not really think about the future.
Days Flor pass in labor, and nights in anticipation: will Gulyak come to spend the night or prefer her embrace of some girl? However, when her husband is at home, she forgets about all insults, because she feels that he still loves her dearly.
What to do if he has such a character and he cannot live without wine, roulette and sluts? And Flor, shedding tears of jealousy, realizes that while Gulyaka is beside her, she is the happiest woman in the world.
All this time, Rosilda, mother Flor, who fiercely hates her son-in-law, lives in another city with her son.
When Rosilda finds out that Gulyaka is dead, she, delighted, arrives in Salvador in the hope that now her crazy daughter, taught by bitter experience, will seek out a decent and rich husband. But Flor strongly rejects all attempts by her mother to woo her one of the local rich and aristocrats. She continues to give lessons in culinary excellence and leads an impeccable lifestyle, so that no one suspects that at night Flor is cruelly suffering from secret desires and unrequited love passion.But the discord between the flesh and the spirit cannot last forever and in the end, Flor succumbs to the entreaties of her friends, ceases to mourn and even accepts the courtship of men. Her attention is drawn to a forty-year-old bachelor, pharmacist and pharmacist Teodoro Madureira, who has long been fascinated by a modest thirty-year-old widow. He makes Flor an offer, and three years after the death of Gulyaki, she becomes the wife of pharmacist Teodoro.
The second husband, Flor, is the exact opposite of the first. He is the embodiment of efficiency, decency, restraint and kindness. The punctual and pedantic Theodoro, whose motto is “Every thing is in its place and everything has its own time,” neatly and conscientiously fulfills its conjugal duties, however, Flor, who is used to the shameless and impudent caresses of Gulyaka, the chemist’s arms seem to be unclean. She manages to extinguish within herself the flame of unquenched passion, for Flor loves and respects her husband, but her soul is full of sweet memories of hot nights with Gulyaka, she is haunted by vague and sinful dreams, and this somewhat obscures her cloudless family life. Still, Flor is happy.
But one day, after a family holiday, she discovers in her bedroom Gulyaka, sprawled in what the mother gave birth to on her bed! Flor is not at all surprised at his presence: she often thought of him. Gulyaka explains to her that he is visible only to her alone, so she can not be afraid that someone will catch them for a friendly conversation, and immediately begins to seduce her ex-wife. Many days and nights, Flor courageously defends his honor and resists attractionhearts, while Gulyaka is entertained by helping his former friends win large sums in city casinos, prompting them to winning numbers. But in the end, she succumbs to his harassment, having previously confessed to her godmother Dionysia, the former lover of Gulyaki, that he pursues her even now, after his death. Dionysia promises to help her and turns to the local sorcerers who prepare everything necessary for the rituals of pagan magic.
And Flor, in whose soul passion finally conquered, flourishes, for her conscience is silent, lulled by the gentle, then insane caresses of Gulyaki.
In a rapture of love, she forgets that she asked for the help of Dionysia. But when she notices that Gulyaka is beginning to literally melt before her eyes, she confesses to him that witchcraft is to blame: it was she who asked Dionysia for help.
Gulyaka obeyed fate, he is ready to go where he returned for his beloved, he says goodbye to her, but the newly awakened passion Flor enters into a duel with witchcraft and wins. The walker, invisible to no one except Flor herself, fills her life with fun and bliss, gives her love pleasures, and the practical and respectable Teodoro brings the woman's life to a measured level and, like a cloud, surrounds her with virtues. Everyone in the city admires Flor, not suspecting that she is happy only because of both her husbands, whose so dissimilar talents so successfully complement each other.
