Mary Gooch gazes out into the night, waiting for her husband to come home. He is late but he will - surely? - be back soon. Tomorrow is special: the anniversary of the day when, barely out of high school, Mary and Gooch were married.

As she waits, Mary reflects on the sad accumulations of their life together: the secrets and silences that have grown between them, and her gaining of pounds and worries. She now finds herself imprisoned in a vast body she no longer recognizes, her isolation and anxiety made manifest.