Medical school drop-out Yessica Sanchez opens a restaurant in her home town of Medellin, the most dangerous city in the world. She falls in love with a Swiss backpacker and together they enjoy a simple, idyllic lifestyle. But the traveller, Marcus Hamm, carries a dark secret and when a man is killed outside the restaurant it triggers a series of events that threaten their lives and will test their relationship to its limits. Soon other interested parties like the CIA, mercenaries and Colombian police are competing to secure the huge financial prize that they believe to be at stake. Only Yessica's father, an unassuming but cunning professor of anthropology, can save his family from a terrible fate. He'll stop at nothing to do so. The backdrop to the story includes some of the more colorful aspects of Medellin, such as its spectacular festival of flowers and Young Women's Talent Competition, and a host of interesting characters from every part of Colombian society.