A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
 
This is a relatively unknown Adam Sandler film where he proves, once again, he can do drama just as well as he can do comedy.  
 
FUN FACT:  There was a translator on the set as Paz Vega did not speak English and writer and director James L. Brooks did not speak Spanish.