Beyond The Picture
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Last published Wed, Nov 28, 2012
Divina Reinhart is a young and simple college student who's wanting to be journalist. School break just started and now she wants to make the most of it to gain a job. She wants to work over the holidays but the only problem is, she never really had an experience whatsoever, so no employer wants to hire her.
Her mom desperately wants her to gain a job as a model because she believed that her daughter got the looks and the body, and she wants her daughter to have confidence in herself. Divina never really thought of her looks as one of a model like figure. To make her mother happy, she agreed to do a modelling workshop that will take part in Australia.
On the other side of the world, Xavier Marques, a job seeker photographer just graduated from a university in America and now traveling around the world to explore new sceneries and new faces to add to his portfolio.
What will happen if the two cross each other's paths?
Their experience will be a once in a lifetime opportunity that will be a road to love, and success. It can change a little part of their life, or maybe turn their whole world upside down?
(Sorry bout that, I suck at descriptions :P)
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