 Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine s marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family s uses. Maxine resents Teri s bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband s arrest. Mama Joe s grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table.