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For 30 years, Stella has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, India. She is brilliant as a cook and has a special skill in padding her salary: uses a few pilfered items, applies some minor overcharging, and a leads a special phone-order duty free business. Things become even more comfortable for Stella when a newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrives with their baby. He is going to take care of the house while she goes off to work. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his “cooking guru”. But Stella’s cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella’s deceptions.