What is beauty, and what will - or should - a person sacrifice to be beautiful? This film by Bernadette Wegenstein and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes examines social perceptions of beauty in women, self image, media, the consumer culture, cosmetic surgery and the medical makeover industry in the United States. The development of self-perception in infants, actual plastic surgery procedures and comments on body perception by an anorexic, a transsexual and a transvestite are featured. Waystone Productions. Closed c aptioned.