A gentle, sweet romantic comedy with some very human twists, Food for the Heart is set in anytown, USA where anything can happen. It is the spicy story of best friends Delmar and Hortense, two single women who share their love of food and friendship with an eccentric circle of half-baked family and friends at Food for the Heart.

Based on the novel of the same name by Atlanta author Lynn Scott Myers, the film is a celebration of life, love, acceptance and family. An unusual offer and an equally unusual decision by Delmar forever changes the lives of this eclectic group of characters -- drawn together by their search for happiness and are brought together by circumstances that might otherwise separate us.

Delmar Youngblood (Jorja Fox) is a divorcee with an abundant love of cooking and family raising a young son in a small town in anywhere, USA. Her cherished dream is to open a restaurant, Food for the Heart, but this reality is deterred by her uninteresting and low-paying job as an insurance adjuster.

Her best friend and roommate Hortense (Suzanne Mara) believes that she will make Stanley Diggers (Paul Provenza) the perfect wife but this conventional lawyer's sole ambition is to make partner. Only then, will he deliver on his promise of a ring. Hortense is becoming skeptical.

Their culinary talents and gift for hospitality leads these two women to host evenings of love and laughter for a motley assortment of family and friends. There's Jethro, Delmar's brother, a Mayan anthropology professor with an obsession for vintage Cadillacs, who fills his house with automobilia and sleeps with car parts piled around him on pizza boxes. His irresponsible and irresistible "writer-for-hire" best friend Marlon Price (David Shackelford) moves in after being kicked out by his girlfriend.

There's their piano-playing mother, Hannibal Youngblood, (Candace Azzara) her enterprising boyfriend, Mr. Ringold (W. Morgan Sheppard) and her friend who unexpectedly dies during one of these evening. When Missy Bainbridge, (Katherine Kendall) her estranged drug-abuser daughter comes to claim the body, she finds what she needs - the warmth of family love and a growing bond with Jethro.

On a quest through a junkyard one evening to rescue a caddy doomed to the wrecking yard, Jethro and Marlon meet and befriend Moses Grady (Bill Nunn), just released from prison and living in a 1956 beauty. As Moses becomes part of Food for the Heart, he finds a new lease on life and a growing attachment to Delmar and her dream.

Things get serious for Delmar when Stanley makes her an offer that rocks her soul: that she become a surrogate mother. His bigoted boss Mr. Spinner's (Michael Des Barres) wife is unable to conceive, and they're willing to pay for an heir. Her ultimate decision to "sell an egg...rent a womb" will enable Delmar to earn enough money to open the restaurant of her dreams. Stanley will make partner and Hortense will get her ring. Moses will go into partnership with Delmar at the restaurant.

But as life sometimes does, nothing goes as planned and yet everything happens as it should. Delmar opens Food for the Heart with everyone on hand. Stanley makes partner, but will he ask Hortense to marry him? Is it still as important to her or has she found someone else? In the last trimester, Delmar decides to keep the baby. Mr. Spinner is determined not to let her, but will he still want it once she's born?

A tribute to life, friendship, racial tolerance and acceptance, Food for the Heart proves that it is never too late to begin again.