Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can`t wait. Not for her license - for turning pretty. In Tally`s world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally`s new friend Shay isn`t sure she wants to be pretty. She`d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world - and it isn`t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.