As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.

An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California.

Victor, a French chef in search of fame, tries to help a child, Lili-Beth, win a culinary competition, but to do so must contend with the hostility of an entire village towards his mother, Sonia, the intransigent local customs officer. In a remote village somewhere on the border between Quebec and the United States, Sonia initially prevents Victor, who has moved to the States, from entering the country. She soon regrets it when Lili-Beth decides to take part in a Petits Chefs competition, in which she seems to have little chance of winning. The intractable Sonia decides to try everything to get the unpleasant Victor to help her. This more-than-improbable encounter will bring a whole village together to get past the various and go taste the essentials.