Scars Beneath the Skin is a dark modern love story set against the anxieties of the post - 9/11 world.
Karl Dresner should be on a ‘plane to the Maldives, with a girlfriend. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a bomb blast in London. Cut down in a blizzard of glass shards, Karl is left alive - but only just…
Doctors repair the scars on the outside, but on the inside, Karl becomes a lonely, withdrawn man. Barely connecting with the world of the living, Karl is an empty shell - punctuating his days with meaningless sex - until he meets an impulsive and life-affirming Italian woman.
Theirs is an awkward, angry beginning - but she can see a future for Karl that he can’t see for himself…
Karl Dresner should be on a ‘plane to the Maldives, with a girlfriend. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a bomb blast in London. Cut down in a blizzard of glass shards, Karl is left alive - but only just…
Doctors repair the scars on the outside, but on the inside, Karl becomes a lonely, withdrawn man. Barely connecting with the world of the living, Karl is an empty shell - punctuating his days with meaningless sex - until he meets an impulsive and life-affirming Italian woman.
Theirs is an awkward, angry beginning - but she can see a future for Karl that he can’t see for himself…