Geraldine Comiskey

Skin Deep Geraldine Comiskey

Skin Deep - synopsis Beauty is only skin deep...until everybody has it. Cosmetic surgeon Raffaella Bianchi has grown up knowing that she is the most beautiful girl in the Italian town of Borgocasino. But she has never been tempted to sashay down the Milan passarella or join the hordes of starlets who fight tooth-and-manicured-fingernail for jobs as TV gameshow hostesses. Having experienced emotional pain as an adolescent, she wants to help other people - whether with a comforting smile or a sharp scalpel. And she believes that the only cure for some people is...beauty. So she offers her services free. Soon, she is world famous. Actors, women taken for granted by their boyfriends, gangsters on the run...they all come to the beautiful "Dottoressa" to heal their self-image and change their lives. Soon, beauty is no longer the preserve of those with good genes or plenty of money. The runways are inundated with uber-models. Hollywood has so many stars that even the extras are extra-glam. Beauty loses its exclusive appeal - and ugliness becomes a precious commodity. Now everyone wants to see unattractive people on screen, on the catwalk, sitting across the table from them on Valentine's Night. What's the point in a candlelit dinner when the two of you look gorgeous in floodlights? What's the point in putting the spotlight on the belle of the ball, when everyone is bellissima? But Raffaella's act of altruism has gone horribly wrong, and she has made enemies, including the mother of a child beauty pageant princess, a jealous husband whose wife has become very desirable to other men - and a crazed dog-breeder who seeks revenge after Raffaella refuses to make her pug more 'pugly'.