Lydia is a fat, graceful woman struggling to maintain her identity in fashionable
Venice Beach, CA. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a
movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against fat people), she still struggles
with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world.
Darcy, a recovering-anorexic Venice real estate agent, is struggling with the
same issues from a very different perspective. Her attempt to join the Fat
Acceptance Group (since she sees herself as fat) is quickly rejected - but it
introduces her to Lydia.
Though they seem at first to be each other's worst nightmare, Lydia and
Darcy begin to confide in each other. Meeting warily in the social minefields
of hunger and satisfaction, anger and femininity, sexuality and fashion, trust and
fear...they become friends.
But then Lydia, stirred by a growing romance with a sweet overweight guy
named Bob, asks Darcy for an unusual favor: she wants anorexia lessons.
When Darcy lets Lydia inside her secret inner world, it forces both women to
confront deeply-buried feelings about their bodies - and nothing will ever be
the same again, for either one.