Famous plastic surgeon Dr. Hugo worships the ground his fiancée Alicia walks on--because he sees her as his creation. He has transformed her from a monstrous carnival freak to a beautiful, glamorous woman. But Alicia learns that beauty isn't everything. She struggles to discern whether people like her for herself or because she's rich and beautiful. She yearns to be her former self, Carissa. As the ugly Carissa, she was sure when people really liked her, people like Mendez, her former neighbor and lover. So when it turns out that Mendez is Dr. Hugos grandson, the former lovers take up where they left off and plan a scam to get Dr. Hugo's money: Alicia will wed Dr. Hugo and get him to put his properties in her name; Mendez will then kill his grandfather and the lovers will live happily ever after. That is, if the good doctor does not have his own plan--one as diabolical as theirs.