Nora, a kitchen helper in the royal palace, is entrusted with a critical task when the head chef falls suddenly ill, baking the long-lost southern citrus bread. With her superb skill, she breaks free of the shackles of her status and officially becomes a royal baker. Later, together with her apprentice Tessa, she hones her craft and is tasked with making sweet bread for a southern envoy; by chance, she passes the lost recipe on to the envoy, writing a gentle story of rising from the bottom with dough and flame.