She went crazy after burning three Michelin stars with her own hands, and the whole city said she was arrogant and self-destructive. Five years later, the banned gourmet director Jiang Yansheng restarted the documentary to look for the former chef Shen Zhiyao - the woman who had even lost her sense of taste. She is as silent as an enigma, but writes down never-before-seen recipes in her dreams; while her deputies covet secret recipes, teenagers carry stigmas, judges hide childhood trauma, and every face hides the embers of the fire she burned. When the fragrance fills the air again, madness is just the truth they dare not admit.
Shen Zhiyao made 274 marks on the calendar in the nursing home with her nails - that was the 274th day after she lost her sense of taste. Jiang Yansheng sneaked in with a documentary team to try to piece together the truth about why she burned down the Samsung kitchen, but found Lin Huaijin's secretly kept "smell file" in the database. Every frame pointed to the judges' shady story. In the name of funding, Su Manru kept sending "reproduction recipes", but in fact, she was inducing Shen Zhiyao to reproduce the dish that made a mistake in the past, in an attempt to awaken her memory to prove her innocence. Chen Zhao unauthorizedly reproduced Shen Zhiyao's "Ash Cuisine" during the live broadcast, which aroused public opinion and forced Shen Zhiyao to speak for the first time: "It's not that I'm crazy, it's that your tongue has been rotten for a long time." ' In order to quell the controversy, Qin Zhi forced Shen Zhiyao to attend the award ceremony, but she was handed a plate of cold soup backstage - it was the only home-cooked soup her mother cooked for her before she died. Shen Zhiyao has no sense of taste, but he remembers every scent of betrayal. And Jiang Yansheng's camera was focused on that dish, slowly zooming in - in that soup was hidden the list of judges who had been burned that year.
