Intrigue

It tells the story of a chef who opens her first restaurant where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor and self doubt, but the pressure heats up thanks to the spirit of the estate's previous owner who threatens to sabotage her.

The ambitious assistant of the famous Chef Marcello quits her job to work as a Chef in a new remote restaurant in the countryside, despite the offer from Marcello to double her salary. She delivers her apartment and moves to live in the restaurant owned by Andres. The place is dirty with insects, and she has hard work to clean the kitchen. Andres is in a hurry to open the place since he has many debts and invites a group of selected friends, including his investor, to write reviews about the new place. However, there is an infestation of insects and a rabbit destroys her vegetable garden, and the Chef loses her supplies and is forced to improvise dishes. But the famous food critic Hiral Sen does not like the food, the investor gives up the business and Andres fires her. But the Chef asks for one more chance to Andres that reluctantly accepts her request. She chases the rabbit to kill it and sees a creepy garden with several plants. She tastes them with her assistant Lucia and they decide to use them in her new trial with several guests. Meanwhile the Chef is haunted by nightmares, and she learns that a witch lived in that area and was the previous owner of the restaurant, but she vanished. Will the Chef and the restaurant succeed?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The narrative centers on Elena, a young, driven chef who hopes to transform a run-down, isolated restaurant into a fine dining destination.

Elena is excited, but she soon finds out about the place's troubled history, which includes a former owner who is said to have practiced witchcraft and other evil rituals.

At first, Elena brushes off the local lore that the property is haunted by the ghost of this previous owner as superstitious.

Elena encounters a number of unsettling events while getting ready for the restaurant's grand opening, including ghostly visions, eerie sounds, and an intensifying sense of being watched.

She starts to think that there are supernatural forces on the property.

Conflicts with her business partner Andres, who challenges her decisions and threatens to replace her with her sous chef Lucia, add to her anxiety.

Elena's conviction that the restaurant is cursed is strengthened when she runs into a former chef who allegedly went insane there, which heightens the tensions.

Elena is essentially removed from the restaurant's operations on the eve of the opening when Andres betrays her by locking her in the cellar.

She discovers a secret room in the cellar and finds out more about the previous owner.

In contrast to local legend, the previous owner was a healer who grew special herbs in her garden to help and heal the locals rather than being a witch.

Motivated, Elena chooses to uphold this tradition by embracing a simple, unorthodox cooking approach that defies the conventions of contemporary fine dining.

Elena makes her way out of the cellar and back into the restaurant, where she cooks a meal outside over an open flame that receives a lot of praise.

Her disobedience eventually results in the restaurant's success, changing its reputation as a cutting-edge and genuine dining destination.

Elena feels fulfilled and quietly acknowledges her connection to the site's mystical past as the movie comes to a close.