Grown up in a middle-class family in Kerala, her family hoped she would enter stable medical-related work. Instead she is obsessed with family secrets and personal memories carried by food. She settles alone in an overseas apartment, researching lost family desserts in her home kitchen. Core conflict: She spends her time listening to other people’s hidden feelings preserved in food, until she herself falls into forbidden love. She savours sweet companionship during quiet private moments at home, yet fears exposure will shatter her simple peaceful life. She is caught in constant tug‑of‑war between docile restraint and secret romantic longing.