Lydia is an overweight sales
clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of
a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against
overweight people), she is still struggling with complex feelings about her body
and its place in the world. Darcy, a recovering-anorexic real estate agent in
her mid-20s, 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. Lydia is
initially wary of Darcy’s efforts to become friends, but Darcy’s hunger for
emotional contact breaks through the wall of apparent differences and they begin
an unexpected friendship. At the same time Lydia gets involved in a sexual
relationship with Bob, an overweight man who joins her in walking for exercise
early mornings at Venice beach. Stirred emotionally by this new romance and by
her conflict with the Fat Acceptance Group, Lydia decides to ask her new friend
for an unusual favor: she wants anorexia lessons. When Darcy lets Lydia inside
her secret inner world, it forces both women to confront buried feelings about
their bodies. Sexuality and fashion, anger and femininity, trust and fear,
hunger and satisfaction: there are things that women can only talk about
honestly with other women. But they never seem to find a way to do it. This is a
movie about two women who do.
