Under the Skin
In Scotland, a motorcyclist retrieves a young woman's body
from the side of a road and places her in the back of a van.
In a featureless white void, a naked woman strips the woman and dons her clothes.
The woman drives the van around Scotland, picking up men on the street.
She brings them to her apartment — a black, featureless void — where the men follow her
into darkness and find themselves submerged in an abyss of liquid.
Their bodies vanish, leaving empty skins behind, and their innards are sucked away
into a distant red light.
At a beach, the woman attempts to pick up a male swimmer.
He tries to save a drowning couple, but almost drowns himself.
Ignoring the cries of the couple's infant son,
the woman strikes the swimmer's head with a rock,
drags him to the van, and drives away.
The motorcyclist retrieves the male swimmer's belongings
and abandons the child.
After the woman seduces a lonely, sexually inexperienced man
with facial neurofibromatosis disfigurement,
she allows him to escape and flees to the Scottish highlands.
The motorcyclist intercepts the man and bundles him into a car,
then sets out across Scotland in pursuit of the woman.
The woman goes to a restaurant and attempts to eat cake, but spits it out.
At a bus stop, she meets a man who brings her home, cooks her dinner, and gives her a room.
She examines her naked body in a mirror.
She visits a ruined castle with her companion and they kiss.
At his house, they begin to make love, but she stops and examines her vagina, alarmed.
Wandering in a forest, the woman takes shelter in a bothy.
She is awakened by a commercial logger, who attempts to rape her.
In the struggle, he tears skin from her back, revealing a black, featureless body beneath.
She extricates herself from her superficial skin and attempts to run,
but the logger douses her in petrol and sets her on fire. Her ashes coil into the sky.
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