Gabriel Lightfoot is executive chef at London's once-splendid Imperial Hotel. Despite pressure from the hotel management, staff, and his business partner, Gabe is about to move to a restaurant of his own. However, the death of worker in the restaurant's basement, a dying father, a girlfriend who demands more from their relationship, and a boss who may be running an illegal business all threaten to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life. Enter Lena, an eerily attractive young woman with mysterious ties to the dead man whose relationship with Gabe will change the course of his life.