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Beauty Refugee
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Beauty Refugee

Jan 31, 2010
0h 58m
★ 0.0

Overview

Twenty-eight of my family members and relatives have been operated at least once by my brother who is a plastic surgeon in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Having grown up as a 'work-in-progress' where the premise, myself, was constantly questioned, as an adult I had to ask my family: could that premise be changed?

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Hysteria Film AB

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