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Savoring Paris is part of the Hallmark Channel’s “Passport To Love” series of films shot at least partially on location around the world. While most Hallmark romances convey the dreamy settings of small towns that don’t seem to exist anywhere in the real world, Savoring Paris uses the City of Light as the backdrop for the film, which adds a healthy dash of wanderlust to its sweet story of a woman starting over in a new country and finding happiness by way of cheese and romance. Opening Shot: Ella ( Bethany Joy Lenz ) tries to stop herself from crying during a business meeting in a conference room.

When she composes herself, we see a flurry of text messages on her phone telling her she was robbed of her big promotion at work. The Gist: Ella works as a recipe developer for a French bistro food chain, a job born out of a true passion for food. Unfortunately, the food the restaurant makes is bad.



So bad she’s embarrassed to put her name on it. Early on in the film, she describes to a colleague a life-changing piece of comté cheese she ate when she was on a trip to Paris when she was fresh out of college, and how happy it made her. But here she is, pressured by her mom to buy a condo and freeze her eggs and stuck in a job she hates, and it’s all too much.

So she drops everything and goes to Paris in search of that comté-inspired happiness she felt in her youth. When she arrives, the first thing she does is buy some comté from a prickly cheesemonger (Stanley Weber.

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