After watching three of her sisters get bariatric surgery and transform their bodies, an unhappy woman decides to do the same. But the journey to thinness, happiness, and self-love is not exactly as straight as she thought.

A 13-year old girl with an eating disorder is sent to live with her mother's distant relatives in the hopes of changing her behavior for the better.

An overweight journalist navigates a strange friendship with a legendary writer and finds his life curiously entwined with one of the writer's students, a fiery young girl.

An effective fat-burninng pill with high odds of mortality is invented, and it makes obesity a rarity, and a crime.

Four teenage boys escape the Brooklyn summertime heat at their local swimming pool. After their swim, the boys are ravenous, and they imagine all the foods they'd like to eat.

The friendship between two college students is based entirely on dislike and desperation - but also need. One has an eating disorder that she needs help overcoming, while the other desperately wants access to luxury and wealth. As they grow closer, secrets and lies threaten to ruin their relationship.

Extreme hunger takes over the lives and sanity of two girls living in Germany's time of war.

At an elite private school, a student struggles to overcome her life-threatening eating disorder while her father engages in an affair with the headmistress.

A young man contracts an intestinal disease as he travels to a tropical island and chooses to fast for his physical and spiritual health. As he develops an intimacy with the island, he becomes convinced that this fast will cure his illness — despite what other Western travelers believe.

An overweight man from New York tries to get his girlfriend to marry him so that when he dies, she will receive his life insurance, but when the woman's ex comes around, the relationship begins to fall apart.