After her wedding plans fall trough, Graz (Austria) luxury restaurant manager Ena finds old, unanswered letters from her Croatian grandmother Carmela, whom mother kept her apart from, and uses her three weeks 'honeymoon' to visit her native Istrian port Rovinj. There she finds grandma runs a hopelessly old-fashioned restaurant and accepts to stand in when Carmela breaks a leg, to th crone's daughter Tereza's fury. Meanwhile Ena slowly admits falling in love with handsome fisherman Matej, who helps keeping the near-bankrupt restaurant afloat while aspiring clam cultivation.