Advent Calendar

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.