Calvin Ray is a legendary emotional chef in the industry. He does not simply extract emotions, but is an artist who can accurately separate, reconcile, and cook out the most complex and pure emotional experiences to satisfy the increasingly sophisticated desires of the upper class. His signature is "authenticity" - a flavor that is almost extinct in a world filled with artificial and synthetic emotions.
However, Calvin's talent stems from a deep secret: he can sense and extract emotions because there is a "hole" in his own soul, a natural emotional blind spot, which allows him to calmly manipulate other people's emotions like a surgeon, but cannot truly experience their depth.
When a mysterious and extremely powerful customer "Anya" places the ultimate order - a taste of an emotion called "absolute nothingness", Calvin faces the ultimate challenge of his career and even his existence itself. The only ingredient? His own untouched soul.
This order pushed Calvin onto a path of no return. In order to create "nothingness," he must first completely deconstruct himself, confronting the past he has been avoiding, his tenuous connections with others, and the ethical abyss of his profession. He is involved in an increasingly dangerous game with his emotionally traumatized assistant Lila, a skeptical Emotional Hygiene Bureau agent Marcus, and the mysterious customer Anya whose purpose is far beyond simply tasting delicious food.
