Their mother used to live by an eight-bite rule to stay slim. Her daughters, however, have one by one resorted to bariatric surgery in order to lose the weight they carry. After watching all three of her sisters' transformative surgeries, the final sister decides to do the same. Her sisters come to her house to support her through the post surgery pain. Just before the surgery, she finally calls her daughter and tells her of her decision. Her daughter is upset, and berates her. She recovers well from the surgery, marveling at the change. She eats her eight bites and nothing more. But something strange has happened—something has moved into the house, a presence of some sort. One night, she confronts the presence, only to find it is herself, the body she used to have as a child, seemingly sobbing. She becomes angry, kicks it, and tells it that it is unwanted. She shuts the door on it and continues her new, weightless life.
Neighbors tell her she looks good. Her daughter finally speaks to her again, tells her she's worried about complications that might arise from the surgery. She asks if her getting the surgery means that she doesn't love her daughter, her daughter's body, either.
In the end, the woman dies at 79, with grief and shame over how she treated her own body. She sees the ghost again for the last time, and apologizes to it.