The world likes to believe that beauty is a form of power. That it opens doors, creates opportunity, and protects those who possess it.

Helen of Troy knew better.

In The True Story of Helen of Troy, beauty is not portrayed as a gift, but as a burden—one that follows Helen from adolescence into old age, shaping her fate in ways she never fully controlled.

For centuries, Helen of Troy has been remembered as a cause rather than a person. A face that launched a thousand ships. A woman whose beauty supposedly destroyed a city.

In The True Story of Helen of Troy, that familiar narrative is turned on its head. Instead of myth and poetry, we are given memory. Instead of legend, a voice. And what Helen reveals is far more unsettling than the stories we were taught.