Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

Two lovers are kept away from each others during childhood because of a secret family recipe war between the two families. After they grow up they meet again and try to regain the recipe to make a new family restaurant work.