Gifted chef Michi Griesebach's career went pear-shaped since his affair with influential restaurant critic Harry Dumont led to divorce. Fearing another sabotage of his latest, possibly last restaurant "La Duck" opening, he grabs a fluke opportunity for revenge on Dumont when he meets his daughter Helene, who seeks therapy for her gastronomy-trauma since childhood from Michi's hedonistic brother, psychiatrist Volker, and mistakes for him Michi, who plays along to manipulate her, but they click romantically.