 Carissa (Heart Evangelista), a woman born with a face resembling a monkey. Carissa and her mother, who is also disfigured, experience abuse and mistreatment as a sideshow in a town perya, where they were abused and mistreated. Despite of this, she was defended by Mendez, a man who befriends the disfigured Carissa and who eventually falls in love with her despite her feature. Finally finding a chance to escape, Carissa is nearly run over by the car driven by Hugo (TJ Trinidad), a renowned plastic and cosmetic surgeon, who was also at the time working on a new, revolutionary surgical procedure. Also in the car is Alicia, Hugo s beloved wife, who shortly after the incident, dies in a tragic airplane accident. When fate decides to cross Hugo s and Carissa s paths anew, Carissa decides to take Hugo up on the offer to be a test patient for Hugo s new procedure. Hugo, meanwhile, decides to mold Carissa s new features on that of his dead wife. After having a charming new look, Carissa returns to her hometown to seek revenge over the locals who made her life a living hell. But can Carissa truly be happy with a face - and a life - borrowed from a woman long dead? How will Hugo live with a woman who shares his wife s face? And what will happen to her relationship with Mendez, a young man who was the only person to see the true beauty behind Carissa s "ugliness?"