Under the Skin Summary

Under the Skin Summary

A man on a motorcycle rides in the middle of the night to a secluded location in Glasgow. He picks up a dead female body and tucks it in a white van. A naked woman then proceeds to undress the dead female of all her clothes. She puts on the clothes herself and then drives to a mall to purchase a few cosmetic items. As she drives back, she is curiously staring at men on the streets. She picks a few of them up at times. She lures one man who is interested in sleeping with her into a dark room. She undresses and the man follows him until he is consumed by the dark floor into the unknown.

The woman is standing at the beach looking at her next target, a swimmer who notices a couple drowning and decides to help. He could only save the man, who effortlessly runs back to the ocean to find his wife and dies as well. The woman watches this and proceeds to finish off the swimmer who was recouping. He drags his body away, totally ignoring the child screaming at the beach side. The man riding the motorcycle arrives later on and gets rid of the Swimmer's belongings, also ignoring the crying baby.

As the woman is coming from the beach, she starts to follow another man on the street. She follows him to a nightclub which she was reluctant to go in at first but was dragged in by a group of chaotic women going into the club. As she tries to leave, she comes across a man she saw on the road earlier. She lures him also to the darkroom and is consumed by the floor. This time, we see the man suspended underneath her. Next to him, he sees the Swimmer who looks somehow bloated. He seems to be alive but when he reaches his hands to touch him, the Swimmer gets consumed from within. The only thing left of him is his outer skin. A flow of red matter flows through a hole into the unknown.

Later on, as she is stuck in traffic, a man selling flowers hands her one from another man on the opposite road. The flower has blood from the vendor who is bleeding. She looks at her hands curiously. As she is listening to the radio in her van, she hears about the couple from the beach who is missing along with their child. She picks up another man and lures him to a house in the suburbs, and he surely meets his fate like the other men.

The woman is applying lipstick as the man on the motorcycle examines her carefully, top to bottom. As she is walking down the street, she trips and falls. A few people help her get back on her feet. As she is on her routine drives, a group of guys approaches her van and scare her off the street.

She later meets a man who is secluded and facially disfigured. She seduces him to come to her house, and he willingly accepts. He follows her into the darkroom, and he is also consumed. Before she could leave, she looks at herself in the mirror and then decides to let the disfigured man go. He runs all the way home but the man on the motorcycle catches onto him and gets rid of him.

The woman drives to a foggy place and leaves her car. She goes to a restaurant to eat cake, but she can’t seem to keep it down long enough to enjoy it. She walks along the road to a bus stop where he meets a man willing to help her. He gives her his jacket and buys her a couple of things. She follows the man to his home where they watch television and have dinner.

At night, the woman examines her body in the mirror. In another location, the motorcyclist, now joined by two more sets out on the road to an unknown location. The next day, the man and the woman go for a walk and the man carries her across a pool of water to the other side. Together, they go into an old castle where he helps her down an old staircase. Later on in the apartment, they begin to engage in sexual intercourse but the woman all of a sudden stops and looks at her genitals. She walks around the forest steadfast and meets a man whom she seems eager to get away from for the first time. She comes upon a shelter. Inside, she falls asleep and wakes up to find the man from the forest trying to grope her. She runs off into the woods to hide. She finds a vehicle, but cannot drive it. The man catches up to her, and he tries to rape her. As he is undressing her violently, he accidentally tears off her skin to reveal a black surface. The man runs in fear.

The woman removes her skin to reveal her true form. She is extremely black and ashy and has no distinct facial features like her previous skin. The violent man sneaks up on her again and covers her in gasoline which he then proceeds to light her on fire. She burns alive to her death. The motorcycle man stands on an icy hilltop, his mind seems so far away as he stares into nothingness.

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