Dr. Payton Westlake is on the verge of a grand discovery - he is finishing experiments on creating artificial human skin. But a gang of criminals led by the twisted sadist Robert Duran invades Payton's laboratory and blows it up along with the unfortunate doctor. Miraculously survived and disfigured beyond recognition Payton decides to take revenge on the bastards. But now he will appear before them not as Dr. Westlake, but as a formidable and terrifying Man of Darkness.