Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk had moved from America (New York) to a French village called Lansquenet-sous-Tannes; Vianne Rochers moves with her daughter (Anouk) into a disused bakery opposite the village's church and turns the disused backery into a chocolate shop. When Vianne moves with her daughter into the disused bakery facing the church, where Francis Reynaud, the young and opinionated curé of the parish, watches her arrival with disapproval and suspicion. …