The movie begins with an advert, promoting a new revolutionary product,
beauty water. It's like DIY plastic surgery. After dipping yourself in the water for around twenty
minutes, your body will become soft, then you can reshape and even slice off yourself like clay
into a beautiful supermodel. This was the product of the future.
We are then introduced to Yeji, a young girl who doesn't necessarily fit the beautiful category.
When she was young she was a brilliant mind with all the skills within her command but
something had always been off. No one seemed to love her, all because she wasn't beautiful.
Several years later, now, in her youth, Yeji had become the exact opposite of what she was before,
letting go of even her skills to avoid getting attention to her ugly face. She was fat and
unhealthy and on top of that she was a minor makeup artist in an advertisement company. The
lead actress Lee Mi-ryul constantly berates her, going as far to tell her to wear a mask around her
so that she doesn't have to see Yeji’s face. One day as they work on Le Mi-ryul’s makeup for
the upcoming ad shoot, suddenly a handsome newbie actor, Ji hoon arrives to greet Lee
Mi-ryul. He greets the senior actress along with her whole staff, even Yeji. Ji Hoon even notices
Yeji and her beautiful eyes. For the first time someone had complimented Yeji and she gets too
flustered to even speak. She hadn't even realised that she had a really unique colour of her pupils
as Ji hoon had pointed it out. But Yeji doesn't get to revel in the moment longer than a few
seconds as Mi-ryul starts hurling objects at her to get her out of the room. Yeji hates her, she
hates everything about the self conceited actress. She rushes outside, unable to bear the anger.
She sits down cursing the actress who is so overconfident of her beauty.
Moments later Ji hoon joins her, he sympathises with her accepting the fact that Mi-ryul was
very rude without her ever doing anything to the actress. He then asks her to do his makeup right
there and the two converse as Yeji works on him. Yeji feels really grateful for his actions towards
her and even develops a bit of a crush on him. During the shoot, Yeji is told by one of the staff
that the other cast member had not arrived and she had to take his place.
All she had to do was eat in front of the camera and she would get paid some extra cash.
Yeji agrees and after the lead actor's performance she eats like she meant it. The job was well done
and she returns home with some extra cash. Immediately, Yeji goes to the store to get
a large amount of food all for herself. She cannot shake the fact that everyone treats her
differently just because of the way she looks, but she doesn't care any more, after years of bullying
and self loathing she had come to accept the fact that she could never be loved.
The fact that even her mother and father didn't seem to care that she was ugly and didn't even
try to help her with expensive cosmetics and stuff made her feel that she was all alone.
Like usual she returns home and locks herself in.
Yeji then scours the internet for comments that berate Mi-ryul.
She laughs at people’s comments calling Mi-ryul's face and beauty a product of plastic surgery.
The harsh comments make her happy and glad that at least there was some place where Mi ryul
got what she deserved for being the jerk that she was. Suddenly she notices that her video of
eating from earlier had gotten viral and there were hundreds of comments calling her a fat pig
and disgusting. She can't take it, all the words pierce through her heart and she loses it.
A few days have now passed, Yeji has shut herself in her room and refuses all her parents' requests
to come out. She has been all alone, doing nothing when suddenly she gets a random text
telling her that she has won a special prize of a free plastic surgery item. Yeji is confused,
she had never even ordered anything as stupid as that and simply ignores the text but the next
day she receives a parcel at her door steps. Intrigued, she opens it up and finds two bottles
of cosmetics labelled “Beauty water”, a card of the store’s location and a flash drive.
She quickly checks the drive and discovers the tutorial of how to use the beauty water.
The lady in the tutorial is similar to Yeji. She is fat and doesn't really have any distinguishing
features to her face. She explains how to use the water. First, drop some in a container and
then dip your face for twenty minutes no more no less. When the time is up, Yeji watches in
horror as the lady’s face starts to melt away, she even uses a knife to cut her face away and soon it
turns into a bewitchingly beautiful woman. Yeji cannot pass up an opportunity like this
and quickly uses the bottles she had been given and her face turns into a beautiful masterpiece
but the bottles were enough only for her face and her body remains just like it was before.
She had to make sure she gets more of it so that she could fully transform. She quickly
rushes to the address on the card and finds herself standing in front of a shady apartment.
She introduces herself to the CCTV monitoring her and the door opens. The owner of the store
was the same lady who had displayed the use of the product. Yeji asks the woman
why she had given her a free sample and The woman explains that she wanted to choose a viral
personality who was… to put it hardly… ugly. This could mean a lot of publicity for her product.
Yeji doesn't know how to respond to that. I’m not sure anyone could.
Yeji begs for her to give her the rest of the bottles for her body but for that the woman
asks her to get two hundred million Won. The fact that it was asked so casually makes the
whole prize from the squid game sound reasonable. Yeji runs back to her home and asks her parents
for the money but her parents are very reluctant to give her the money. Yeji then threatens them
and blames her parents for never helping her to get over being ugly and never supporting her,
she basically guilt trip them into giving her the money. With the money she finally
transforms into a fantastic beauty after taking a dip into the bath full of beauty water.
She quickly uses this new found beauty to date several men to find herself a good rich boyfriend
but most of the guys she goes on a date with are either liars who just want to sleep with her
or whiny babies who are not worth her time. She manages to get one proper date but she
doesn't really find the man that interesting either. He invites her to an exclusive party
and she agrees to go because she had wanted to go there for a long time. There she stumbles
into the agent of Mi-Ryul. He asks her to give him a call and he could make her a star but Yeji
was too pissed to pay him much attention at that time. She had been denied access to the VIP room
and this made her mad. She was pretty, I guess that didn't mean she could get everything.
Later as she is sulking over that fact, she realises that for she had once again
started to get fat, she was once again starting to become the fat ugly girl that she was. She gets
scared and rushes back to her room and decides to take another bath in a pool of beauty water.
She puts a timer of thirty minutes and goes into the bathtub. As she gets in she starts dreaming
of her childhood, when she was once an exceptional dancer but no one had loved her because her face
was not pleasing at all. As she falls asleep in the bath, her phone’s battery dies.
Her mother crashes in looking for her as she had been gone for a long time now
and watches in horror as she finds her daughter’s body all disfigured and ugly. Far worse than what
she was originally. She calls in her husband and they are both perplexed and confused as to what
they should do. The mother remembers that beauty water could reattach the flesh to a person as well
but the thing is Yeji’s flesh had melted away and there was no way they could add that back to her.
Having no choice left, the loving parents use their own flesh to save their daughter’s life.
They are old and their flesh is not enough to bring Yeji back to her former beauty but its
just enough to keep her alive, When she wakes up however, Yeji is not pleased with the zombie esk
body that she had now and takes whatever money she has and returns back to the woman
who owned the beauty water. She however is a very stingy person and doesn't want to help Yeji.
Not because she doesn't want to but because Yeji doesn't have enough money to pay her.
Yeji begs the woman to help her and the woman agrees on the condition that she licks her feet.
A desperate Yeji is ready to take any action and does exactly as she was asked.
The woman works on yeji and fixes her up but she only fixes her hands and her face and
leaves the rest of the body as it was. Yeji is confused why but the woman tells her that
with the money she bought she can do only that much. She explains that flesh is very expensive
and Yeji should be thankful that she helped her even that much.She starts berating Yeji
going as far as calling her a pig. Out of all the things this is the one thing that Yeji cannot take
and she starts attacking the woman and eventually manages to kill her.
Yeji uses her flesh to reconstruct her body back to her actual self.
Elsewhere in the news, the reporters have been reporting several women in their twenties
missing. Even the actress Mi-Ryul has left her job and has been contactless from the media.
Yeji has been working as the head actress in the same company now and is the number one actress in
the business. Yeji is now successful and pretty however the guilt of murdering someone keeps
hauting her. One day she stumbles into Ji hoon again; he too had left the industry and explains
how the agency had been treating Mi-Ryul. The two end up having a great time together that day
and talk about many things and find themselves attracted to each other. The two start dating.
Life has started to get better slowly and steadily for Yeji but she just cannot shake off the guilt
of her actions and even starts seeing stuff in the mirror. One day she even thinks she saw her face
wilting once again but it was all in her mind. She had rushed back to her home to use the beauty
water again just to realise that she had been hallucinating. This even makes her a bit late
for her date with Ji hoon but the guy is perfect he isn't even angry at her. That day, Ji hoon
proposes to her for marriage and she gleefully accepts. They go back to Ji hoon's place.
Yeji notices his family picture which doesn't really have him in it. There are his parents
and two sisters. His youngest sister is not at all like her parents and is a bit too shabby but
Ji hoon tells her she is his favourite. As Ji hoon then heads to make some dessert to
celebrate the occasion, Yeji goes around his apartment. She stumbles into Ji Hoon's room
and notices a box containing…. Beauty water. She gets shook and investigates further and sees the
belongings of all the women who had been lost in the past month. He was the killer and she realises
that he wanted to kill her too. She quickly runs away but Ji hoon follows her and despite her
attempts she is quickly captured by Ji-hoon. He then takes her and ties her up and reveals
himself to be the same ugly daughter in the picture. He had turned himself into a guy
after getting taunts for being ugly despite her talents. Then with the help of beauty water
he had collected all the beautiful women, and the features one by one. The whole agency was
actually made so that he could get beautiful women to join and then take their features.
He had even taken Mi-Ryul’s features which is why she had been lost from the media lately.
Ji hoon had noticed her eyes ever since the start and wanted to add it to his collection
and finally, he could achieve that dream too. He takes a surgical knife and carves out her eyes.
The movie ends as the agent scouts another pretty woman for him to take the features of. This one
had beautiful lips and the agent sends her picture to Ji hoon. Ji hoon smiles, Yeji’s eyes attached
to her legs. His new target was ready. Subscribe for more videos like this,
turn on the notification, and leave a like to help the channel out. Thanks for watching.