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Avery is a well-known plastic surgeon in Los Angeles who believes precision is control. At her Beverly Hills clinic, she performs expensive procedures for wealthy women, refining faces with exact results.
Everything changes when she sees Celeste in a video online. Her beauty is striking-but not perfectly symmetrical. Avery begins to follow her on social media, quietly watching, collecting fragments of her life. Celeste is a well-known avant-garde artist, known for using her own body as a medium. At a gallery, Avery finally sees her in person-standing behind glass, drawing faces in condensation with her fingers.
Avery becomes obsessed with Celeste's face. She tries to recreate it on her clients-but the changes don't hold. She arranges to meet Celeste. Their first encounter turns intimate. After that, something begins to shift. Avery notices subtle changes in her own face-and in the faces she has altered. The results no longer behave as expected. Instead of pulling away, she becomes more fixated-driven to possess what she sees, even as her control slips. Their connection deepens into something uneven, marked by influence, dependence, and control. And as more begins to surface, Avery is forced to consider a possibility she cannot explain: she may be the one being shaped.
BECOME HER uses a cold, distinctive narrative voice to tell a story of beauty, desire, possession, control, and self-erasure. Through a psychological thriller lens, it presents a series of vivid, unsettling scenes, inviting readers to explore questions of personal existence and the meaning of self-denial.
A psychological thriller of identity, control, and toxic intimacy-
with the cold detachment of Ottessa Moshfegh and the visceral body horror of Mariana Enriquez.