Morbid

In early 2016, Charlie is a super-morbidly obese recluse in Moscow, Idaho. Weighing 600 pounds (270 kg), he teaches online English writing courses with his webcam off, ashamed of his appearance. His nurse Liz brings him unhealthy food despite urging him to seek treatment for heart failure, which he claims he cannot afford. Each night he orders pizza from Dan, a delivery driver he has never met face-to-face. Thomas, a missionary for the New Life Church, lets himself in during a supposed medical emergency and insists on helping Charlie. He learns Charlie hopes to reconcile with his estranged teenage daughter Ellie, abandoned eight years earlier when Charlie left his wife Mary for a male student, Alan, whose subsequent death left Charlie grief-stricken. Charlie offers Ellie his $120,000 savings if she will spend time with him; she agrees, on condition he completes her homework, though he also asks her to write honestly in a notebook he gives her. As his health deteriorates, Liz brings him a wheelchair. When Thomas visits again, Liz angrily confronts him before revealing she is the adopted daughter of New Life's head pastor and Alan's sister; she explains that Alan's religious guilt drove him to suicide, and Charlie's grief led to his emotional eating. Thomas nonetheless remains convinced he must help Charlie. Ellie later drugs Charlie's food with crushed Ambien; when Thomas arrives, the two smoke marijuana together and he confesses to stealing from the church and fleeing his mission in Iowa, unaware Ellie is secretly recording him. Liz brings Mary to visit. On learning how much Charlie has saved for Ellie, Liz storms out, furious at having been deceived about his refusal of treatment. Mary and Charlie argue over his choice to leave the family, and over Ellie's cruel behaviour, though Charlie insists he still hopes Ellie will prove he "did one thing right" in his life. After a delivery, Dan lingers to check on Charlie following a coughing fit and finally sees him—reacting with shock before fleeing. Humiliated, Charlie binge-eats severely and sends his students a furious email dismissing their coursework and demanding they write him something honest instead. Thomas returns to say he is going home: Ellie sent his confession to his church, and his family has forgiven him. He tries to quote Romans 8:13 to Charlie, but is thrown out after suggesting Alan's death was linked to his sexuality. In his next class, Charlie tells his students he has been fired over the email, reads some of their honest responses, and finally switches on his webcam despite their mixed reactions. Declaring that only their honesty matters, not the coursework, he ends the session by throwing his laptop against the fridge. As Liz comforts the dying Charlie, Ellie arrives furious about a failing grade on an essay she believes he rewrote—he had secretly submitted instead an essay she wrote in eighth grade about Moby-Dick, which he considers the most honest thing she has ever written. Though she initially rebuffs his final attempt at reconciliation, she reads the essay aloud at his urging. 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