Behind the closed doors of an ordinary apartment, Diana and Roman seem to be living a simple love story. But the picture-perfect romance shatters when, one evening, someone other than Diana comes home. Beneath her familiar skin lurks a faceless entity that has stolen her appearance in a desperate attempt to experience human emotions and find its place in a world where it does not belong.
The entity painstakingly plays the part of the perfect girlfriend, reciting memorized phrases, mimicking tenderness, and mechanically reciprocating affection. But when Roman seeks genuine intimacy, the carefully constructed illusion begins to unravel. Its attempts to perform love descend into a grotesque farce: a smile twists into a deranged grin, words lose their meaning, and familiar gestures of affection grow increasingly disturbing.
Unable to sustain the deception, the creature wearing Diana’s identity descends into uncontrollable madness. It tears away its human skin, revealing a being that has failed to become human. What began as a love story dissolves into a nightmare of body horror, where the desperate longing to be loved conceals something far more terrifying: the complete absence of a self.

Directeds by Kseniia Klever (Russia)