SWEAT AND SILK

Marina has been at war with her own body for years. Thirty-four years old. Nine kilos overweight. A broken marriage. And the silent certainty that she will never be enough. When she finds Metamorphosis, a body transformation academy in Barcelona's Eixample district, it seems like the answer she's been searching for her whole life. The instructor knows her before she even says her name. The ball they hand her is hot. Too hot. Something in that place works. Her body changes. Her skin becomes translucent. Her joints bend in new ways. Her hunger disappears. And yet, she can't stop going back. In the back room, there are women who have been in impossible positions for months. Their skin glows. Something that shouldn't exist is growing on their backs. They all signed the same contract as Marina. They all came looking for the same thing. What are you willing to lose to stop hating yourself?