택시 기사 필을 위한 페니의 사랑이 점점 식어간다. 그는 점잖고 철학적인 남자. 페니는 수퍼마켓에서 일한다. 그들의 딸 레이첼은 집안 청소를 맡고 있고, 아들 로리는 실직했지만 진취적인 사람이다. 필과 페니의 인생에서 즐거움이 점점 사라지고 두 사람에게 예기치 않은 비극이 찾아온다.
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
Desperate to find her perfect man Justine goes to a technology fair with her nerdy classmate Chas. It's not really her thing but is eventually persuaded to try a virtual reality makeover machine and discovers that she can create her perfect man even if it is only an electronic facsimile. The power surge from a freakish accident causes a part of her psyche to be copied into her virtual perfect man.
