The videos attempt to show him in a good light and brainwash her into liking him. Uma is shown creepy, overproduced videos of the man her family wants her to marry. The rehab experience is individually tailored to each girl. The rehab facility, however, turns out to be on an island in the middle of the ocean with no hope of escape.Īt the facility, the girls are constantly trying to avoid being brainwashed, drugged, and physically tortured. Uma immediately decides she will run away the first chance she gets. Beaches, gorgeous architecture, everyone is pretty with clear skin and dressed in beautiful, fancy outfits….however, “paradise” couldn’t be farther from the truth (predictably). With time running against her, Uma and the rest of her girl gang must find a way to survive before they are up next.Twists and turns are nonstop in Paradise Hills. Finally, alerted by Amarna about their dinners being laced with a sleep-inducing substance, Uma manages to investigate Paradise Hills at night and discovers the bone-chilling truth: the island is a giant control room to analyze the students' behavior and appearance so they can be replicated by Lower women hired to replace the Uppers after the original women are killed. Amarna, who had started feeling attracted to Uma, feels bitter about this. While Amarna and Uma concoct a plan to escape, Uma is shocked when Markus appears as part of Paradise Hills' staff. Its elegant staging and the daily sessions of make-up, hairdressing, etiquette, and therapy are not working on any of her classmates either. Uma soon suspects a hidden purpose behind all the facility's luxuries. Then Uma meets the eccentric Duchess, Paradise Hills' headmistress, who tries to convince Uma to marry up, like her mother wishes. Waking up in Paradise not knowing how she arrived there, she soon meets other students: Amarna, a pop-star who was sent after she decided to sing her own songs against the will of the company that controls her records Chloe, a plus-sized young lady whose parents want turned thin and compliant and Yu, a Lower whose aunt and uncle sent her there after she refused to inherit the family business. Instead, she falls in love with a working-class young man named Markus, so she is sent to Paradise Hills, a school for young ladies located on a remote island in the middle of the ocean. Uma is a privileged young woman who is adamantly against marrying another Upper, Son. In an undetermined future, society has divided into two sub-types: upper-class or "Uppers", and the rest of the world, mid- and lower-class, named "Lowers". With time running against her, Uma and the rest of her girl gang must find a way to survive before they are up next.-Agencies
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