Years of working in the food industry have made Juana, a working-class Latina, a chef of speed and skill. Searching for financial stability, she stumbles into a high-energy, male-dominated Japanese cuisine kitchen. The new atmosphere re-ignites her passions for food and life and makes her hungry to get mixed up in the flavors of this new world.

Fed up with being stepped on and mistreated at school, Cinder takes a chance to become part of the popular crowd by making the most popular guy in school fall in love with her.