Set in Eden, a fictional town in the Karoo, Tannie Maria, played by Maria Doyle Kennedy (THE COMMITMENTS, THE TUDORS, DEXTER, OUTLANDER and ORPHAN BLACK) is renowned for her delicious food, the recipes of which she shares in her column in the local newspaper, The Gazette. When the cash-strapped publication decides to axe her column in favour of an Agony Aunt column, Tannie Maria volunteers to do it.