One of cinema's most offbeat heroines inhabits this film-and is revealed to be its most human. Marianne (Marianne Sägebrecht) in her loneliness knows more than most about the comforting and sensual nature of food. She also knows that life for the skinny can be bereft. In her funeral parlor job Marianne is a nurse for the dead-she carries them, holds their hands. But there's something missing, for sure. Commuting by subway, she sets her sights on a slim young driver, Eisi, whom she intuits through a combination of voyeurism and detective work will respond to sweets. When Eisi, alias Sugarbaby, arrives at her flat, he is the tender morsel Marianne's been wanting all along. They eat and make love, eat and bathe, eat and talk. Eisi thrives on the getting, Marianne on the giving ("Want to lick the spoon?"). Bathed in candy-colored light, Sugarbaby is a daydream of what it might be like to be fat and lighter than air at the same time.