CinemaNow - Woman On Top

Isabella and Toninho are blissfully happy living in a port city in Bahia, on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Isabella loves Toninho madly, and she stirs his passions with meals that she has learned to cook with native spices, natural herbs, local ingredients and a magic all her own that turns them into extraordinary gifts to the senses. But Toninho and Isabella run a restaurant where her culinary arts are hidden in the kitchen, while his musical talents and personal charm are on display in the dining room nightly. Still, Isabella can live with his ego - so long as Toninho can live with her little affliction: she is subject to terrible motion sickness. She must drive when they take the car out; she must walk when he would rather take the elevator; she must lead when they dance. And when they make love, she must be on top. A man's ego can only stand so much, and Toninho's finally gets the better of his good judgment. When Isabella catches him with another woman, she is inconsolable. But all is not as rosy as it seems. The penitent Toninho has abandoned his restaurant to chase after his wife, and has inserted himself - along with a traveling band of Bahian troubadours - as the wildly popular musical accompaniment on Isabella's show. Eager to reclaim her vanished passion, Isabella seeks help from her guardian goddess, Yamaga, and friend Monica. But she soon discovers, the path to happiness must be discovered by her alone.