Marian is a determinedly ordinary girl, fresh out of university, working at her first job but really only waiting to get married. All goes well at first, she likes her work in market research, and her broody flat-mate Ainsley - even an uncharacteristic sexual fling with the divinely mad Duncan cannot lure her away from her sober fiancé Peter. But Marian reckons without an inner self that wants something more, which talks to her through the food she eats and calmly sabotages her careful plans. Marriage à la mode is something she literally can't stomach.