Stella has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary. A newly posted Canadian diplomat and her husband Michael arrive with their baby. Michael was a chef and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru" but her cozy domestic set-up implodes when an honest nanny joins the household and threatens to expose Stella’s deceptions.