A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

To celebrate a lifelong marriage, Gerda and Kristoffer travel to Rome to relive the city where Gerda was once an aspiring art student. When they run into her former teacher and lover Johannes, Gerda is reminded of the life she used to live, and Kristoffer is sidelined while Gerda wanders the streets of the Eternal City in search of her long-lost youth.

Two men from different generations form an unlikely bond while protecting a runaway circus bear in the French countryside, discovering shared passions for nature and wisdom along the way.