A touching, tender and at times funny account of a womans struggle for stature in a 4 foot 8 inch tall body, Beyond Measure speaks to the heart of soul breaking attempts to fit an arbitrary and elusive cultural ideal of physical perfection. Being short is not the problem, Ellen Frankel insists. Instead, the real difficulties lie in the social bias against short people.
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