A courageous story of a handmade culinary life

Erin French is the owner of the worldwide dining destination: The Lost Kitchen. But prior to this unprecedented success she was a young girl growing up in Freedom, Maine. Working the line at her father's diner, from a young age, and dreaming of becoming a professional chef. But as luck would have it Erin's life takes a few turns for the worse and she experiences unforseen heartbreaking circumstances. She has to drop out of college due to becoming pregnant as her father becomes more and more emotionally and verbally abusive to her due to his disappointment in the way she has messed up her life. Erin is failed over and over again by her parents as her mother proves powerless to come to the defense of her daughter. Erin ends up alone, without a home or job with her baby son, Jaim, determined to make a life for him better that her own. But she eventually goes down the spiraling hole of addiction, depression and anxiety. A relationship with a man who seems to be her savior but in the end is brutal and abusive and determined to destroy her. But Erin, refuses to give up. She finds comfort in food and cooking and begins to see her culinary sklls as a way to rescue her life as well as her son's. Erin courageously finds a sense of family and community and realizes the goodness of culinary life in this world of her own making.