Mary is 11 years old and has an inusppressible passion for cooking: she dreams of becoming a geat chef. 

Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relaitonship, encourages her to make this dream come true.  But every path has its pesky obstacles, and facing them turns into quoite an adventure.

Mary thus begins a journey across the barriers of time, in which four generations of women come together and get to know each other truly and deeply.

A delicate coming-of-age story, sprinkled with irony.

Based on the novel of the same name, by one of the most beloved contempoary Irish author Roddy Doyle