A girl's mother tries all the new diet fads coming out of the university. One day she tries one that actually works: though it puts her in excruciating pain as she excretes pounds of fat from her body. The girl warns her family against the pill's 1/10 odds of mortality. After seeing her success, her dad follows suit, but dies from the pill. However, his death does not stop her brother from trying the pill as well. Soon there are few fat people left since everyone is taking the pill. The girl's mother pressures her to take the pill as well when she turns eighteen, but the girl pushes it off while she is at college and finally refuses to come home. She finds a house where she is paid large sums of money to act as a sort of exotic performer or circus animal for people to come see. In the outside world, laws are made to restrict fat people from traveling on airplanes, and virtually existing in society in general. The girl stays at the house and builds a relationship with one of the other fat exotic performers, since she knows she is no longer welcome in society.