Real love doesn't exist... or does it?
Pastry cream runs through Gionna DeLuca's veins. Forty-something, curvy, and content with her life, she makes extravagant wedding cakes to celebrate other people's love stories. Believing she will never need one for herself.
Surrounded by a long legacy of loving relationships in her family's bakery, a brutal heartbreak forces Gionna to shut down and build unscalable walls. She resigns to live her life fiercely independent and tries to find happiness and success on her own terms.
Until a younger mohawked sous chef walks into DeLuca's and challenges everything she thought she wanted. He pushes Gionna's boundaries and forces her to confront her fears and failures. Demanding she open her heart to the risk of love or remain stuck and unfulfilled in a life she is beginning to outgrow.
The Sweetest Day explores one woman's misconceptions about the existence of forever love and the danger and reward of putting your heart into the hands of another.