A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone s high expectations and the opera singer s triumphant return