To earn more money, Guo Chunyan, a head chef specializing in village banquets, leaves her principled former boss and joins Wei Changgui, a businessman offering higher wages. But she soon becomes entangled in a web of hidden deductions and frozen ingredients passed off as fresh. Pressured by her position as a team leader, she makes one compromise after another. As she watches her fellow women workers get fired and spoiled ingredients about to be served at a wedding banquet, she finally comes to her senses and stands firm on her principles. Joining forces with her former boss, she exposes the industry's unspoken rules and settles both the debts of human relationships and the accounts of conscience at the kitchen stove.