If the world turned its back on your best friend for being fat, would
you turn your back on him too?
At a time when the obesity problem is headlining at world health
conventions, one small nation struggles to find solutions to the rising
cost of healthcare. Campaigning on promises to clamp down on obesity,
Shape Up - led by the charismatic William Tanner - claims a landslide
victory. Honouring its campaign promises, laws targeting fat people are
swiftly introduced. Government obesity squads - the GO squads - roam the
streets in black vans with a license to enforce the laws by any means,
whipping up violence towards fat people.
Teenagers Monty and Levi have been best friends since kindergarten. Levi
is smart, funny and loyal - he's also obese. As the obesity laws become
harsher and fat people increasingly disaffected, Monty begins to resent
his friend, eventually disowning him. When Levi is brutally beaten by
the neighbourhood bullies, Monty hardens himself to the injustice,
blaming Levi for not doing more to lose weight.
But when Levi disappears, Monty realises that something more sinister is
at play. Recruited to an underground anti-government organisation, Monty
seizes the opportunity to fight back in the hopes of finding his friend
and restoring balance in a society gone mad.
