Documentary of a voyage to Istria in search of an old Istrian recipe. Francesca, a young woman from Turin who is the grandaughter of Istrian exiles, has lost her grandmother’s recipe book that includes, among other entries, a now impossible- to-find recipe for “The Crisp Castle”. Hence she takes off in search of the recipe and, while trying to recompose her grandmother’s entire book, recipe by recipe, she travels far and wide throughout Italy. She finally ends up in the wonderful land of Istria, where she explores its painful and controversial past.