- In a materialistic world of artificial identities, a storyteller unleashes a mysterious godlike being who abducts alienated mortals and leads them through dance to shed their artificial masks and embrace each other's common humanity.
- Roger is being interviewed for a career in finance at a major city bank. His interviewer, Jack, ridicules Roger's CV. When Jack notices that Roger had spent years writing a story called 'UNSKIN', he asks him about it, and so Roger begins to recount the tale of a mysterious hooded figure who stalks the city streets, invisible to the public, seeking mortals in need of transformative change.
The hooded figure identifies social groups who are too occupied by their narcissistic and materialistic needs to notice one another, all the while ignoring the disenfranchised homeless on the side of the pavement. Unbeknown to them, the hooded figure proceeds to abduct them, transferring them into a dark and cavernous space, where they are unconscious and suspended like marionettes.
The hooded figure clicks its fingers and the mortals are awakened but unable to move until the hooded figure begins to conduct them like a puppet master, making them sway with each stroke of its hand. As their movements intensify, the mortals are drawn closer together in the same vicinity and begin to shed their artificiality, embracing each other's common humanity. However, the hooded figure is no longer present, and in its place stands Roger, the storyteller.
Back in the office, Jack patronises Roger for his make-believe fantasy and asks him to leave. Yet Jack has no idea that Roger's story is far more real than imagined, since it has unleashed the hooded figure into the same room, standing behind Jack and ready to abduct and unskin him too.
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