In this novel, Toni Morrison shows the dark behind the scenes of a small American town where Picola Breedlove lives, whose only dream is blue eyes. Beauty is a relative concept, but for America in the 40s, black beauty does not exist. Morrison tells a story woven from scraps of tragedy , ignorance, prejudice, the story of a black girl who wants one thing - to be looked at differently. And also the stories of many other people: her parents, classmates, acquaintances. A series of events pass before us that changed Pikola’s life forever. There are books that are painful to read. But this pain is healing, because no matter what Morrison writes about, all her books are about love.