Lucy Caswell successful food writer, and former top chef, has been hearing rumors about a phenomenal Pan-Asian chef cooking in a homeless shelter soup kitchen. Sensing a great story she tracks him down. Unfortunately, the chef, Zhang will only tell her his story if she agrees to cook in the soup kitchen with him for one week. In Zhang's kitchen Lucy finds her passion for cooking rekindled. And in Zhang's bed she finds her passion for everything renewed. But will she still be able to love him when all of his secrets are revealed?