A Japanese New Year's dish someone's mother used to make. Stewed meat and potatoes, full of a grandma's love. Miyuki Munekawa is a chef who helps her clients revisit fond memories by recreating unforgettable dishes from their past. Just a single bite can bring people and places back to life, and prompt tears of gratitude. Miyuki's reputation has spread, and she now gets requests from all over Japan. Her latest assignment is to recreate a unique rice cake a client's grandmother used to make. But capturing it perfectly proves to be a challenge.

During World War II, over 120,000 children in Japan were orphaned. Many of them never knew their parents' names or what they looked like. Seventy-three-year-old Honoko spent her early years in an orphanage, then was raised by kind and loving foster parents. But she remained consumed by the desire to learn more about her origins. We follow Honoko as she retraces the steps of her childhood desperately searching for answers.