Pier, a former top chef, lost everything and ended up homeless. He hides a dark secret from his past, because of which he left Torino. Annibale, his best friend, asks him to come back to face an urgent matter: Carla, his ex-wife, is dying. She wants to give Anna, their daughter, in custody to Lucia, Anna’s aunt. Pier signs the papers, aware that Anna is better off with Lucia. Annibale owns a shack in a construction storage and Pier decides to take it as a home. Pier meets Granata, an old aristocratic beggar, who is an expert on surviving with nothing, collecting leftovers. With him, Pier starts a journey that helps him to reconnect with his love for cooking. When Carla dies, Anna decides to stay with him in the shack. Pier is forced to live with a teenage daughter that he really doesn’t know, learning what it really means to take care of someone else.