A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.


Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner, Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant, recently-widowed Carmelina, Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups, Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel, teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi, and Sam and Brad, a May-September couple who would never have gotten together without a little magic of their own.


Everyone in the River City has a secret, and sooner or later secrets always come out.