Mais qu’est-ce que les femmes ont toutes à vouloir maigrir ? Contrôler son alimentation est devenu aujourd’hui le sport féminin national. Contaminées par la phobie de l’embonpoint, des adolescentes entreprennent dès l’âge de 10 ans des cures amaigrissantes pour obtenir un corps "parfait". D’où vient ce désir d’être toujours plus mince ? Comment et pourquoi en est-on arrivé à cette représentation du corps féminin ?

Why in the world are women always trying to loose weight? Today, controlling what they eat has become the national sport for women. Contaminated by the phobia of chubbiness, at the age of a mere 10 years old, children are already learning diet plans and methods for slimming down the hopes of having the perfect body. Where does this desire to always be a little thinner come from? How and why have we arrived at this contemporary representation of the female body? In this documentary, the journalist enters as a naïve client into the world of slimming down. This initiatic voyage forms the through-line, which carries the investigation along.