商场营业部的职员山下贵子（中谷美纪 Miki NakataniSs饰）来到一家名叫“上海小饭店”的中式家常菜馆，并邀请菜馆里厨艺精湛的王老板(藤龙也 Tatsuya Fuji 饰)来商场开店。遭到拒绝后不死心，又多次上门求访。未能如愿的贵子却意外的迷恋上了这里平凡幸福的美味菜肴，成为了店里的常客。随着时间的推移，贵子和王老板渐渐熟络起来。但孤独年迈的王老板却突然病倒，为了能让散发着幸福馨香的饭店继续经营，贵子终于决定辞职，全心来跟王老板拜师学艺，开始了一场学习烹饪的动人之旅。 该影片也是导演三原光寻继《乡村照相馆》后又一部自编自导的作品。
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
