Sunshine and Spice

DEBUT After launching her own brand-consulting business, Naomi Kelly needs to secure her next contract to keep her fledgling dream alive. She delivers a winning pitch, to help revamp Gia’s Bazaar into an Indian-style café that will be able to compete with the spreading gentrification in its Canadian town, but she’s concerned that the café’s owner, a conservative Bengali mother named Gia Mukherjee, will discover she has no real connection to any Indian Canadian culture or community, despite being of Indian descent. Naomi decides to seek out assistance from Gia’s grumpy and handsome son Dev who agrees to introduce Naomi to his family’s Bengali roots, but only if she’ll also serve as a buffer and fake girlfriend to ward off the matchmaker his mother recently hired. As Dev brings Naomi into his family life with community events and even couples’ cooking lessons, he begins falling for her, even though they both fear that her untraditional upbringing will mean their romance is unsuitable as anything other than a fling.