玛莎(马蒂娜•戈黛特 Martina Gedeck 饰)是一家餐厅的厨师长,不仅人长得漂亮,而且厨艺精湛。唯一的不足,就是由于长期担任领导职务,使得玛莎的性格古板、严肃认真。一天,玛莎的妹妹不幸车祸身亡了,留下了年幼的女儿莲娜。莲娜因为痛失母亲,患上了厌食症。无论玛莎煮出怎么美味的食物,都无法激起莲娜的食欲。 这时,新来的厨师马里奥(塞尔吉奥•卡斯特里托 Sergio Castellitto 饰)的出现彻底打破了餐厅一贯宁静的气氛,玛莎认为他是老板请来替代她的位置的,于是处处与马里奥作对。 然而,马里奥却处处帮助玛莎,帮助玛莎治疗莲娜内心的创伤,甚至当莲娜被她的生父接往意大利后,义无反顾地陪玛莎飞往了意大利。于是玛莎决定用她的双手去经营这一份美味关系。In a German restaurant, Chef Martha Klein is the undisputed supreme ruler of the kitchen staff and woe to any customer who would dare criticize her cooking. Her life is firmly centered around cooking which takes on a obsessive level with stubborn single mindedness. Even when she is ordered to take therapy, she still constantly talks about her work and the iron clad control she relishes in her task. All that changes when her sister dies in a car accident, leaving her 8 year old daughter, Lina. Martha takes her niece in and while making enquiries for her estranged father, she struggles to care for this stubbornly headstrong child. Meanwhile at work, a new chef named Mario is hired on and Martha feels threatened by this unorthodox intruder. The pressures of both her private and work life combine to create a situation that will fundamentally call her attitudes and life choices into question while these interlopers into her life begin to profoundly change it.