Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a brilliant but haunted plastic surgeon. For twelve years, he has been secretly perfecting a synthetic skin that is impervious to insect bites and damage—a breakthrough that could have saved his late wife, who was burned in a car accident. But his methods are monstrous.

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: Robert forcibly subjected Vicente to a series of gender reassignment surgeries and aesthetic procedures to recreate the likeness of his deceased wife, Gal.