About the book: 2021 / First place in the "New Start" competition. Winner of the Clever manuscript competition. Shortlist for the "New Children's Book" award. In the world of flying turtles, on an island that floats in the Abyss, all people are equally beautiful. People spend years saving up for scars, purple skin or a third eye. Maura's face has been disfigured since birth. Scars become her entrance ticket to the world of the elite. The girl is admitted to the best university on the island! But there Mora feels like a stranger; her new friends are only interested in rumors and legends about her ugliness. She hides the fact that she has strange visions of an alien world and a handsome scientist, so different from the others... When Rey appears in her world, he becomes the first one who looks at her without disgust, the first one she feels sympathy for. Will he help solve the mystery of the scars on her face if he pursues completely different goals on the island??