Beneath the Skin is a darkly humorous, human horror tale set in Chicago. Martin Copley, a lonely accountant, discovers something alive is moving inside him. The entity, communicating via cryptic messages under his skin, is not malevolent but a lost, lonely creature from another reality. Forging an unlikely bond with his symbiotic passenger, Martin must defy logic and medicine on a bizarre road trip to the Pacific Northwest. There, at a metaphysical "wound" in reality, he faces an excruciating choice: help his otherworldly friend return home, forever altering his own humanity in the process.