 The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It s a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children now run the hotel according to her specificiations, serving up ghastly seaweed and fish-based food and enema treatments. Kath, once the sous chef, arrives when she receives an anonymous letter telling her of the matriarch s death. Will she bring light into the place with her wonderful cooking?