Life is running smashing for Maggie (Karyn Dwyer). She has recently moved out in her have & discovered a woman of her dreams, Kim ((Christina Cox). Nonetheless, items quickly vary whilst her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) and brother come forced to enter Maggie's diminutive loft sublet sustaining her. All the freedom & space she has gained is compromised, & she believes she must keep her florescence affair the secret. However it's the hugger-mugger romance that unknowingly introduces her personal to a hikers of freshly lives, several of which are then better than chocolate.

A cast besides includes Ann-Marie MacDonald as Frances, the creator of the sapphic bookshop in which Maggie works, & Peter Outerbridge as Judy, a transwoman with an unrequited crush in Frances.

A movie won numerous awards at film festivals about the world & was graded 31st on the Hollywood Reporter's Top 200 independent films list of 1999. These are one of Canada's highest grossing films ever.

the film will require its title from either a lyric within Sarah McLachlan's song "Ice Cream", Your love is better than chocolate. Veena Sood, a sister of McLachlan's married man Ashwin Sood, has a little role in the film as a religious protestor.