After decades of running her bustling phở restaurant, Bà is not thrilled when her daughter Radish, fresh from years of fine-dining training abroad, returns home eager to learn the family’s legendary recipe.

The kitchen is Bà’s kingdom, and she shuts down every attempt her daughter makes to help. When their simmering tension finally explodes, the kitchen transforms into a mythic temple where a noodle dragon rises from the broth, threatening to destroy the family’s dish once and for all. Forced to fight side by side, mother and daughter discover each other’s strengths for the first time.

When reality snaps back, the meal is ruined and the kitchen is wrecked, but their relationship has finally taken its first step toward healing.