In music we have an absolute ear, in gastronomy an absolute taste. Hassan Kadam is considered a culinary prodigy who emigrates from India, the land of a thousand spices, to France, where, in the words of Jean Anouilh, weddings, baptisms, duels, funerals and diplomatic disputes are just a pretext for a good dinner. But when Hassan opens an Indian restaurant in front of Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), an incident is brewing.
