Martin Naranjo is a chef par excellence, a perfectionist and an artist when it comes to food. Martin's personal life however is a slightly less ordered affair as he struggles to deal with the unexpected, though welcome, advances of his neighbour and the constant revelations of his three adult daughters. Tortilla Soup is an enjoyable sweet natured comedy drama, though Ang lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman", upon which this is based, is still the most delicious and delicate of the two.