Luna ( Hang Thi Nguyen )was born in Saigon, Vietnam and emigrated to Italy where she lived for 30 years. In Rome, she developed and successfully operated several restaurants in which classic Italian, classic Vietnamese and her special fusion of European and Asian foods were served.

Zeno ( Steve DeBerry ) was born and raised in Queens, New York. He always dreamed of being in the country and living as natural a life as possible. In 1992 he relocated to Asheville, NC and began pursuing his dream. In 1998, after being reunited with Luna via the Internet, his dream began to take tangible form.In 2000 following her marriage to Zeno she resettled in the United States in Asheville NC . For a brief period in 2003 she opened and ran a Vietnamese fusion Restaurant called At Luna's.