Three seniors at Philadelphias Frankford High find an unlikely champion in Culinary Arts teacher Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephensons hilariously blunt boot-camp method is validated by years of scholarship success thats taken countless students from the citys working-class neighborhoods to the top culinary schools in the country. And under her fierce direction, the usual distractions of high school are swept aside as Erica, Dudley and Fatoumata prepare to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them.