SYNOPSIS |
This
is the story of Beatriz Pinzón Solano, a brilliant economist with a
masters degree in finances, but she has one flaw: she is ugly. Her
only boyfriend abandoned her after a few days' romance. She learned the
hard way that love was not for her and that she would be a spinster all
her life. So
while her neighbors danced at discos and experimented with love, Betty
dedicated all her time and efforts to her studies and instead prepared
herself for a bright professional future.
This pleased Hermes, Betty’s father, a very demanding and over
protective man. Everything
changes when she starts to work at Ecomoda, one of the largest fashion
enterprises in the country. There she meets and falls in love with
Armando Mendoza. Being
overly desperate to get a job after many failures, she agrees to work as
his secretary, a position well under her intellectual abilities.
She knows that her looks do not help her, and for this reason she
decides to start from the bottom and work her way up to an executive
position, which she deserves. Betty
really starts low at Ecomoda! She is stashed away in an old attic, while
a beautiful woman sits at the reception area of the company’s CEO
office. That’s her luck for being hideous looking. Betty
accepts this all, just to be there.
She makes this dark closet her office and her place to dream.
She is happy with this situation since it allows her to be near
her boss, Armando Mendoza, a handsome executive who has inherited the
company’s presidency from his father.
She has to see him on a daily basis, tending to his every need,
pining for him, while Armando is not aware she exists as a woman.
To him, she is only a human being who provides him with brilliant
ideas and covers up his clandestine dates from his fiancée, Marcela
Valencia, a sophisticated fashion designer who despises Betty. Betty
never had any friends, since none of her neighbors or classmates wanted
to be associated with someone as ugly as her.
Yet in ECO Moda she identifies with other women who are
ostracized because of their bad looks. Hugo
Lombardi, top designer at ECO Moda, has categorized them as belonging to
the “Ugly Women’s Barrack”, and never allows them to come near his
working area.
From their Barrack, Betty and her friends watch the world of the
glamorous, delight themselves by gossiping about the models who work
there, and give each other support in their problems. Betty
thinks se is the most unfortunate one of the group.
The other women of the Barrack are either married, divorced,
single mothers, or engaged, but she has never had the chance to
experience love. Pretty
soon things start to change for Betty.
Armando involves the company in financial problems.
Betty is always there to help him get out of trouble time after
time, but ECO Moda is constantly exposed to the dangers of his rash
business moves.
They both work side by side long hours every day. One evening
Armando ends up madly and passionately kissing Betty.
This is the most beautiful kiss Betty has ever known, a kiss
which sends her flying and start dreaming and hoping for love.
Yet, it is also the most infernal kiss of her life, since she
knows that is was not meant with love, but instead it was all part of a
business strategy that her boss played with the ugly girls at work,
sacrificing himself by kissing her.
It is also this kiss which changes her life, for she will never
be the same.
The new Betty will have an amazing body together with a complete
soul transformation which will teach her boss that that girl which he
kissed drunk one evening with eyes wide shut, is now a woman worthy of
any mans love. |