Food writer Carolyn Blue gets to use her taste-testing skills again - this time in Barcelona, while her husband gives an academic lecture nearby. Carolyn soaks up the sights of the city and visits her friend, Roberta, a resident Miro scholar at a modern art museum. There, she catches a performance art piece about death - planted a little too firmly in reality. One of the actors is dead … and a dead-ringer for Roberta.