Everyone under the age of sixteen has been classified as 'ugly' while everyone over sixteen has undergone an operation to make you society’s image of perfect. Being prejudged by appearance is a problem of the past as everyone over sixteen years old is enhanced to become 'pretty'. In the operation your eyes are enhanced to become large and vulnerable looking, your lips plumped to ultimate fullness, your skin stripped away and replaced by completely flawless skin, your teeth are replaced, your vision intensified to perfection, your bones …show more content…
But underneath her glamorous world Tally knows the consequence to having this carefree and perfect lifestyle. Brain damage. Her perfect world is a dystopia disguised as a utopia.
Tally learns that everyone who underwent the 'pretty' operation had lesions put into their brain. The lesions made the 'pretties' forget their lives as 'uglies' and force their brains to think in a certain way. The operation was formed to stop humanity from destroying the environment.
But, old memories of Tally's life as an 'ugly' bubble to the surface, leaving Tally in a constant struggle to remember her old life. When Tally leaves the city to find David, an old friend, things go disastrously wrong and she begins to discover more of the city's ugly secrets. This future is far from perfect. A barbaric village has been set up by the city as an experimentation of human nature. Even worse Tally is intertwined with another of the city's dark secrets when she is captured by the city's extreme police force the 'Specials' and is turned into something worse than a brain damaged 'pretty', a