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CurrentIn THE BEAUTY AND THE SICKNESS a psychopath abducts an innocent Mormon girl and drags her up a hillside in the mountains of Utah. He digs his fingers into her legs, rips her open, and proceeds to rape the poor girl as his wrath-bitch of a wife looks on masturbating in the darkness, and in the aftermath, the pop-culture ethos of this country is writ so large that it sees fit to place this young girl between Jessica Alba and Brad Pitt as one of fifty of America's most beautiful people. Six years later, the Mormon Prophet sends Judah to Los Angeles with the task of keeping Bethany's troubles out of the Hollywood tabloids. Judah, overweight, lost and alone, feeling crushed within a world of stagnant memories, is tasked with Bethany's protection. But the tabloid lifestyle includes a corrupt group of Meth ingesting paparazzi with a plan to get that coveted shot of Bethany's exposed vagina.Bethany lay on the bed catching stars through the window. The world seemed forever; the distance so great. Her mother was out there somewhere watching the rape in Hi-Def. Maybe mom was floating on that cloud she spotted, the one slipping past the crescent in the sky, kicked back with the remote in hand, switching back to the Knicks game for updates. Bethany looks through the window. Palm trees sway. "Judah, where are you?" Judah is the only person left in Bethany's life that cares enough to begin the search. Judah's need for self-discovery takes him on a journey where he learns life-lessons in unexpected places, and from people he may never have known to be so kind. As Judah begins his search for Bethany, he meets Chavah, a young woman who will help him solve the mystery of what happened the night Bethany went missing, and in the process she will show Judah what it is to be loved.