IInspired by televangelists, carnival sideshow, Rocky Horror Picture show and the notorious Lobotomobile and the horrors of botched cosmetic surgeries, I Liked You Better Before tells the story of a band of charlatans who travel through rural Canada performing plastic surgery procedures at breakneck pace on farmers and townspeople The surgeries are performed in the Mobile Surgical Beautification Unit, a vintage Airstream Bambi trailer, the interior of which reveals a terrifying operating room more aptly described as a museum of oddities and taxidermy. The dynamic and charismatic Barker, who is equal parts Mad Hatter and snake oil salesman, offers patented instant beautification transformations at a bargain rate. In a send-up of todays obsession with multiple and repeat surgeries aimed at an increasingly inhuman ideal of beauty, locals are offered five procedures for the price of one and the heavy, the homely, the unfortunate are swindled out of their savings in exchange for the opportunity to be saved by way of liposuction, facelifts, and implants. The instant beautification transformations are performed by the bearded board-certified surgeon, Dr. Lady, accompanied by Nurse Lola, a singing Boston Terrier. After a convincing demonstration of Dr. Ladys rendering skills, effected by sending a plain 52 brunette into the trailer and a buxom 62 blond out of the trailer, the locals are ready to sign over the family farm and line up to saved. One by one the locals enter the trailer to undergo their beautification transformations and one by one they emerge in what becomes an increasingly disturbing parade of horribles. With the Barkers staff on hand cheering enthusiastically, even the most botched of surgeries seems to pass muster or at least to leave the transformed in a state of bewilderment lasting long enough for the Mobile Surgical Beautification Unit to skip town in search for the next pack of ugly ducklings longing to be swans.