Haunted by his tragic previous, Jack LeBlanc, a heavily-scarred introvert, volunteers for a Section I medical trial of a miraculous new tissue regeneration remedy, dubbed "Obsidian." Quickly, beneath the watchful surveillance of revered pharmacologist, Dr. James Walsh, Jack and the group of hopeful volunteers begin to expertise hellish unwanted side effects from the drug and shortly discover that the search for vainness might be lethal.