Diamond Beauty

Hungary2023fiction30'International Short Competition

Maria is addicted to plastic surgeries. Successive augmentations do not satisfy her and she want new ones. Her nose, lips or facial fillers are never perfect. Now, she is looking forward to the opportunity of a date with her former love. But where to find money if she is drowning in debt? Where to find a surgeon if she is well known at all clinics and has been denied access to some of them? ‘Diamond Beauty’ is a story where grotesque is enlaced with black comedy and romance. The protagonist knows no limits. Maria will go to any lengths to achieve her aim - get yet another fix of her drug. Putting her health and finance at risk, she continues to drown into her addiction. She does it in the name of love, and who wouldn’t want a little affection and kindness? Who wouldn’t like to be attractive for the object of their desire?