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Wallace Bryton and his close friend Teddy Craft host a wildly popular, irreverent true-crime podcast called *The Not-See Party*. Driven by a relentless ambition for edgy content and viral fame, Wallace travels alone to Manitoba, Canada, to interview a bizarre internet viral star known as the "Kill Bill Kid." However, upon arrival, Wallace discovers the boy has tragically committed suicide. Desperate not to return empty-handed, Wallace happens upon a handwritten flyer on a tavern restroom wall left by an eccentric, wheelchair-bound elderly former mariner named Howard Howe.Sensing a lucrative story, Wallace travels to Howe's isolated, sprawling estate. Howe proves to be a mesmerizing conversationalist, plying Wallace with fascinating, harrowing tales of his time lost at sea, specifically recounting how he was rescued from a shipwreck by a Pacific walrus he named "Mr. Tusk." Unknown to Wallace, Howe has drugged his cup of tea. Wallace wakes up paralyzed and bound to a wheelchair, learning that Howe is a violently deranged misanthrope. Howe despises humanity, which he views as a cruel and wretched species, and harbors an obsessive fixation on recreating his beloved walrus companion from human flesh.Driven by this twisted madness, Howe amputates Wallace’s legs to construct the flippers and surgically alters his spine, intending to permanently trap him in an agonizingly crafted synthetic walrus suit made from human skin. During this horrific ordeal, Wallace is subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture, forced to learn how to bark, move, and eat raw fish like a beast.Meanwhile, back in the United States, Teddy and Wallace’s deeply worried girlfriend, Ally, realize something is terribly wrong. They embark on a desperate rescue mission to Canada. They enlist the help of an eccentric, hard-drinking former French-Canadian detective named Guy Lapointe, who has been tracking Howe for years, suspecting the old man is a serial killer responsible for dozens of missing-persons cases over the decades.Lapointe, Teddy, and Ally finally track Howe down to his hidden lair just as the deranged marine has completed the final stages of the horrific transformation. They interrupt a bloody duel where Howe forces Wallace, now entirely broken and psychologically shattered, to fight another captive dressed in a crude animal suit. In the chaotic aftermath, Howe is killed. Although Wallace is successfully rescued from the clutches of his captor, the psychological trauma is irreversible. He is permanently mute, broken, and deeply institutionalized in an animal sanctuary, where Ally and Teddy visit him, sadly realizing that the man they once knew is gone forever, trapped permanently inside the mind of a walrus.