A solitary hunchbacked character exists in a prison-like world. He is visited by a butterfly, which encourages him to pursue the heights of love. Tragically, he is rejected.Statement: I made BEAUTY to capture a daydream on film. It is part of a collection of films I’m making about my inner dialogue with Dostoevsky. This daydream expresses my anger at the empty idea of beauty. Dostoevsky wrote that beauty would save us, but I only see it making the world and its inhabitants seem uglier and uglier, teaching them to see more and more ugliness in themselves, the more and more lofty and unreal the ideal of beauty becomes.