Admitted for questioning with clear signs of psychotic tendencies and chronic insomnia, an unidentified woman in her thirties is suspected of committing twenty-seven murders. Profoundly scarred--both physically and mentally--and with a slippery grasp of her identity, the woman known only as "Patient 394" struggles to explain the self-inflicted scars on her face, as well as the cruel methodology she used to unemotionally dissect, mutilate, and vivisect twenty-four of her completely unrecognisable victims. What could have pushed this broken paraphiliac to perform such acts of motiveless malignancy? Little by little, as the line between imagination and reality becomes blurry, the mysterious woman's captors will soon learn firsthand about her otherworldly guide--the nightmarish Overseer--his angels of pain, and their pressing demand for flesh offerings. Will they now believe the grim testimony of a loyal servant whose name was Torment?