Under increasing pressure from the CIA, Jacky finds himself in need of a quick getaway, but escaping without a passport is tricky. Paul Braque has the right contacts, but wants something in return...

The humanitarian program is stalling. Michel has a bright idea: we must organize an "Afghanton" for the benefit of drug victims. For the com', Amanullah will burn his opium production live. Habib, propelled on stage against his will, sings and makes a hit. A true Machiavelli, Amanullah's son reveals his true face.

When Jacky is seduced by a customer, it may have serious financial consequences for the restaurant. Sophie contacts election candidate Hamida about opening her girls' school in a poor neighbourhood.

Jacky manages to get his customers evacuated from the bar - after they've paid, of course. Amanullah and Axel try to find Sophie, who's been kidnapped. Damien wants to send the riot photos to France.

Jacky's having trouble sourcing alcohol. Relations with his regular suppliers are rather tense and he has serious doubts about the seemingly easy solution that Colonel Amanullah offers by way of help.

The NGO "The Bamboo's Solution", supported by Angelina Jolie, is likely to win grants at the expense of the rose programme. Michel uses all his talents to convince the representative of the European Commission to support the roses, in vain. The Russian mobsters lend a hand to Michel: they eliminate the European official. Lala's arms trade is uncovered. Damien understands that he was fooled. Jamal, the unloved son of the Amanullah clan, takes power. The colonel is thrown out into the street.

The Russians force Sophie to hand Michel over to them against Damien's release. Amanullah and Lala, deprived of the army, steal a stockpile of weapons and a mysterious safe. Victor finds himself with an international arrest warrant on his back; Jamal's heroin trafficking fell on him. Amanullah learns that Sophie and Michel are in mortal danger. The whole little "family" of Kabul Kitchen board Damien's bus to fly to their rescue.

Sophie wants to return to France after the opening of her girls' school gets no publicity and few pupils turn up. Jacky fears he has cancer, but is hesitant about being treated in an Afghan hospital.

When rockets hit Kabul and the restaurant is UN blacklisted, profits take a hit so Jacky hires some mercenaries. What could possibly go wrong? Sophie wants Axel's help with the girls' school campaign.

Sophie has been running Kabul Kitchen on her own since she believes her father died fleeing Kabul. When the police call her to tell her that they have arrested her father, Sophie fails to fail. At the police station, however, it is not Jacky that she discovers, but Michel, a small worldly crook who becomes encrusted in Kabul Kitchen. Amanullah comes out of prison, ruined. He had time to think in his cell. And he has a big project for his country...

Sophie gives birth, with the help of Michel. But the Russians caught up with the bus. Michel, the one responsible for all their problems, sacrifices himself. The Russians are recovering the uranium and Michel. The latter owes his salvation to providence... and his talent. Back in Kabul, nothing will be the way it used to be: Sophie realizes that Afghanistan is not a country to raise a child, she leaves Kabul with her daughter. Damien himself, stays, preferring the party to his new responsibilities. Sophie entrusts the Kabul Kitchen to Michel. Axel and Lala split up. As for the colonel, he embarked on the presidential campaign.

Outraged by Nigel's report, in which Jacky's lifestyle is exposed, Sophie's mother Martine rushes to Kabul to ask for the child support she never received and hires an Afghan lawyer to represent her.

Amanullah discovers that his son Jamal is about to sell his drug to Russians. That's one too many for the colonel. He takes Michel on board to storm the heroin convoy and destroy it. Damien decided to leave Kabul without telling Sophie, who is due to give birth shortly. But on the way to the airport, Axel needs him: Lala is in danger. They all end up at the place of the deal with the Russians. But they don't know that Michel has made a deal with the police, and nothing goes according to plan... Meanwhile, Habib, threatened by Pissenlit's father, flees with his dulcinea.

Amanullah is inspired to improve his media profile when BBC reporter Nigel, an associate of Jacky, turns up. But Jacky doesn't want a journalist uncovering his connection to the drug lord colonel.

When the daughter of Hakim, Kabul Kitchen's cook, leaves the country with help from a German NGO, he turns to religion and coaxes his workmates to adhere to strict Muslim precepts, threatening profits.

Colonel Amanullah asks Jacky to hide his mistress Djamila when she is discovered by his wives, but Sophie objects to Djamila's confinement in her room. Then Jacky finds himself arrested for procuring.