The French restaurant "Monsieur Quelqu'un" is located in the historic center of the city of Saumur, and it is here that France's leading chef GABRIEL CARVIN (70) celebrates the arrival of his third star. On the evening of this same day his wife LOUISE (60) finally leaves him for the bed of her lover, ROBERT (55), the gastronomic critic to whom Gabriel owes his stars. This brutal separation triggers a family crisis that severs his relationship with his two sons: JEAN (40), the sous-chef of the restaurant who attempts in vain to walk in his father's footsteps in the kitchen, and his younger son, NINO (18), an idealistic millennial who rejects all consumerism and seeks above all love and truth. For Gabriel this overflow of resentment strikes him in the heart, in the form of a myocardial infarction.
