Recent divorcee Song-Hee moves into number 301 of the "New Hope Bio Apartment." A fantastic chef, she gained weight cooking and then finishing the elaborate meals that helped trigger her divorce. She befriends the woman in number 302, a distant and anti-social writer haunted by a past laced with sexual abuse, butchery, and death. 302, a model of anorexic beauty, throws up because food as symbol of her past nauseates her physically. 301 cooks because food means control over an unruly world. But cooking can be so dangerous in this psycho-sexual film filled with utterly surprising provocations.