A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. A group of males go to a villa within the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to demise. The life of a prime chef modifications when she becomes the guardian of her younger niece. A housewife who’s sad with her life befriends an old woman in a nursing house and is enthralled by the tales she tells of individuals she used to know.