ilo (Aishwarya Rai), an immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. While she supplies the ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. However, when she suddenly falls in love with a fine American man, her powers begin to wane and leave her with a difficult choice....

Acclaimed director Gurinder Chadha co-wrote the screenplay of this romantic drama with her husband Paul Mayeda Berges, adapting the script from the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.