Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Julie is a temp secretary living in contemporary New York, while Julia is an American living in Paris during the 1940s and '50s discovering life, and food. Frustrated with her job, Julie embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1960s book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
