At 19 she was an Instagram celebrity. Now at 35 she works behind the cosmetic counter at the
black and white store peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual
transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. She's about to undergo the high-risk elective
surgery Aesthetica a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures
returning her she hopes to a truer self. Provided she survives the knife. But on the eve of
the surgery her traumatic past resurfaces when she is asked to participate in the public
takedown of her former manager boyfriend who has rebranded himself as a paragon of woke
masculinity in the post-#MeToo world. With the hours ticking down to her surgery she must
confront the ugly truth about her experiences on and off the Instagram grid. Propulsive dark
and moving Aesthetica is a Veronica for the age of Instagram face delivering a fresh nuanced
examination of feminism MeToo and mother-daughter relationships all while confronting our
collective addiction to followers filters and faux realities.--
