Absolute Beauty

Sahifa Nazari is a woman with an expectation of justly deserved rest, having finally fled the shell-mangled oblivion that had once been her childhood home amidst the desert sands at pain of disownment by her tyrannical and patrician parents. Arriving in a city of limitless promise to care for her brother, mentally shattered by a war that has left her an emotional ruin, hope seems to await; and yet it will elude her as her career plunges her into the grand return of a nightmare specter of the city's past. The Aphrodite Killer, a monster of sublime sophistication and unfathomable cruelty, had terrorized it for two years, claiming its petrified citizens in the grip of a mindless and shivering fear. Transforming his victims into works of statuary, his fixation upon beauty, a sublime and absolute beauty, captivated and horrified with every exhibition, until his death. Now, Sahifa will behold a grand unveiling.