To escape the pressures of the corporate world, Jiang Nuan opens a little restaurant on an old street. She opens when she feels like it and changes the menu with her mood, yet a light is always on late at night for travelers who have lost their way.
A girl nursing a broken heart, a programmer on the verge of a breakdown, a lonely old man… Here, each finds the bowl of food fate had waiting for them. Their fractured souls are healed by food, and warmth fills their once-cold hearts.
No one knows that Jiang Nuan, the owner, can “see” her customers' emotions. That is, until the elderly professor who comes every Wednesday to order “braised fish tail” reveals a promise made half a century ago…
(Highlights: food, healing, episodic stories, everyday life, and emotional redemption)