Experimental filmmakers and best friend duo Soraya Mousch and Max Holborn put out an open call on the internet for raw film footage to create a chainmail style movie out of "found" footage sent in by people from all around the world. They call this project Kerato Oblation, a reference to the process of physically altering a human cornea, and a nod to their goal of "reshaping" modern understandings of what film can be. The project is produced under their already established and well respected film collective, the Toronto Wall of Love. They expect the footage sent in to push boundaries, but are entirely unprepared for a file they receive that will forever haunt them. The file, sent in by a numbered email address with no signature or identifier, shows a middle aged man in a plain room, undressing in front of the camera and then sitting on a chair. The man proceeds to slit his throat in front of the camera, the entire time keeping a blank expression. The film speeds up at this point, showing a time lapse of the man's body bleeding out and then decomposing over the course of roughly three months. Once the body has reached full decomposition, a man that is by all identifiable means the same man who has died and decomposed before their eyes walks out from behind the camera, stands in front of his own dead body, and turns the camera off. Soraya is the first to see the file, and immediately sends it over to Max, who becomes upset with her because he does not want his wife, who is battling brain cancer, to have to see something so demented. Soraya seems unconcerned about legal repercussions and is excited to have such intensely raw footage for their project. She suggests they take the footage to Laszlo Hurt, who scans the footage and lets them know that the file they received was a recording of an original projection based off of distortion. He tells them about a film urban-legend the video reminds him of, where a photo of a murderer contained an asphyx-- a kerato oblation holding the last image a murdered person sees-- is visible when the photo is zoomed in. He explains that anyone who tried to blow up their image of the murderer to look into her eye and see the asphyx went insane or mysteriously die if they didn't burn the picture first. After watching the file and attempting to identify it, Max continues putting together the project, but begins noticing something strange. The man from the anonymous file, naked with a red line around his neck, begins showing up in other parts of the film, from clips sent in from people all around the world. Initially, he attempts to splice him out, or ask people to resend their files to have a new version without the man in it. Despite his best efforts, the mystery man continues showing up, more prominently and for longer amounts of time, no matter what he does. Max reaches his breaking point when his wife Liat becomes very ill and ends up dying in the hospital. The last x-ray scan of her shows a hand at the top right corner, which the police rule out as any of her doctors or anyone else present at the hospital. Max believes that it is the man from the video, and that he is the reason his wife died, not the cancer she has been battling. Around this same time, Laszlo goes missing, and the police receive an email from an account traced back to the now presumed to be deceased Laszlo sharing the file. This sparks an investigation into the man in the video and Soraya and Max, which ultimately ends up fruitless as a fire mysteriously starts in an evidence locker and the anonymous "Suicide Man" is largely unexplainable. When questioned, Max insists that he has no idea who the man is, and is ultimately scared of what he might do, unable to give an explanation or prediction of how the film was created and how the man continues to appear in totally separate clips. Fearful of what the man might do next, Max attempts to put an end to him by crashing the Kerato Oblation website, putting an end to the project. Despite his best efforts, the man continues to appear, but now in completely unrelated films, even an Angelina Jolie movie that is eventually pulled from theaters because of the presence of the naked man. The image continues circling around the film industry and becomes something like an urban legend, haunting film from the background.