Tiffany is shining in her trial period as a cosmetics saleswoman. She knows how to make her customers feel good and makes more sales than all her colleagues put together. But then she is told her trial period will not be extended. To Tiffany’s disbelief, before long another girl with supermodel looks is taken into the back office for an interview. Tiffany herself is wide-eyed, bubbly and beautiful, but she is also overweight, and this becomes the root of a growing insecurity. She finds some comfort at home with her mother, an obese telephone tarot-reader who never goes outdoors, but eventually this set-up begins to stifle Tiffany and she begins to visit nightclubs in the hope of finding love. One night she misses the bus back from town and goes into a bar to keep warm, empty apart from a beautiful man – the proprietor, Falk. There is instant chemistry between the two but they they get so drunk they simply fall asleep. This is the start of a turbulent, on-off liaison involving much hurt, anxiety and misunderstanding for Tiffany. She decides that the only way to be taken seriously is to go under the surgeon’s knife, but her mother’s dreams must pay the price. Meanwhile it seems that Tiffany is not the only vulnerable one when it comes to her body… LM
