Set on a tropical island in Thailand, the film explores the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st Bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved. CAST: David La Haye, Leah Pinsent, "Mamee" Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Dr. Mohan Agashe and Michael Ironside. DIRECTOR'S COMMENT: "While storytelling in the West weighs heavily on logic and a clear-cut cause and effect in narrative development, many popular South East Asian tales are based on fables, borrowing on classic themes and mythology, such as the philosophy of animism - a belief that objects such as rock and water have souls. Growing up in Malaysia, I was sensitized to such things as spirit, occult and the powerful force of nature." (Hunt Hoe)