ADJACENT
Jin Park has run PARK'S at the Eastside Open Market for six years. Her bibimbap bowl is the anchor dish of the Austin market scene. She has applied for the corner spot three years in a row and been told maybe next year each time. On the first day of the new season, Nick Callahan parks CALLAHAN'S in the corner spot: a former executive chef, recently divorced, technically brilliant and operationally a disaster. When his first service collapses, Jin intervenes and then charges him for the oil. Over the following weeks, Nick improves, the Iron Chef cook-off pairs them as accidental partners, and they produce a gochujang aioli that belongs to both of them. A food blog names Nick the breakout star and Dwight offers him the permanent corner lease. Nick brings the offer to Jin. Jin brings the truth to Dwight. Jin gets the corner. Nick takes the adjacent spot. The twelve feet stays.
When a recently divorced executive chef buys a food truck as a midlife reinvention and is given the prime corner spot at Austin's newest outdoor market on his first day, the six-year veteran who applied for that spot three years running is assigned directly beside him. A workplace ensemble comedy about competence in collision, the difference between earning something and deserving it, and the twelve feet that eventually becomes the whole film.
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