A film that proves the truth behind the saying, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Chef Sao, who moved from a province of Thailand to the capital Bangkok, works at a luxury restaurant. But she is in fact fleeing a traumatic event she experienced fourteen years ago. Upon encountering the perpetrator of that event again, her sense of balance is shattered, reopening old wounds. Taking advantage of the fact that the wrongdoer does not remember her, Sao decides to settle the score with the past through revenge, choosing as her method the thing she knows best: cooking.

In Morte Cucina, the kitchen is portrayed not merely as a place of pleasure but as the central setting for an unsettling story, pitting the subtleties of cooking against the cold-bloodedness of revenge. The film explores the strange proximity between flavor and violence.