SYNOPSIS
A satirical mystery in which America’s obsession with youth
and beauty hits critical mass, when a gorgeous young corpse turns
out to be made of more plastic than flesh and a high-profile divorce
turns into a war over the value of an older woman’s new body
parts. When the husband’s attorney claims that those parts
should be figured into the settlement along with the couple’s
other non-liquid assets, his wife’s attorney (The Soprano's
Aida Turturro) counterattacks with an impassioned “survival
of the fittest” defense
of all women who "live in an age when the greatest sin of
all for a woman is to age!”
James Kiberd, Marie De Cicco,
Rachel Alvarado
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Antoinette Peragine,
Rocco Sisto
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STORY & CAST
Al Walker (James Kiberd) comes home from a
trip abroad to discover that his wife, Eve (Marie De
Cicco), is sporting a new pair of buttocks and that
his teenage daughter, Iris (Rachel Alvarado),
has just had another nose job. And when mother and daughter
go compulsively jogging and discover a corpse, they react more
to
how gorgeous the poor girl is than to the fact that she’s
dead!
Detectives Tortoni and Gabor (Rocco Sisto and Antoinette
Peragine) learn that the dead Vicky (Phoebe
Price) had a couple of ribs removed to narrow her
waist and that she shared the same plastic surgeon as Eve Walker,
who is by now embroiled in a high-profile televised divorce.
Al’s attorney (Michael Crider) is insisting
that Eve’s new body parts are “community property
acquired during the marriage and should be figured into the
settlement along with the Walker’s other non-liquid assets.”
Appalled that a woman’s body be valued like real estate, his wife’s
attorney (Aida Turturro) delivers an
impassioned “survival
of the fittest” defense of all women. Proclaiming that “in this
age we live in, the greatest sin of all for a woman is to age,” she pleads
that Eve not be punished for her self-mutilating battle to better herself in
a society obsessed with youth and beauty!
Meanwhile, the detectives have started to wonder if a member
of the Walker family might be a suspect. No sooner have they
discovered the twisted circumstances of Vicky’s death,
than the divorce judge issues his landmark verdict! It spawns
a new kind of recovery group across the land—for “victims
of poor body image.”
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Rocco Sisto & Antoinette Peragine
Aida Turturro & Marie De Cicco
Simone Study & MarLee Candell
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