A darkly funny and absurd tale of human instincts exposed.Meet Billy, a boy cursed-and blessed-with the power to see what hides beneath polite smiles.To him, every human wears an invisible mask: lions, snakes, pigs, and sheep all pretending to be people.Armed with nothing but his strange gift and a too-kind heart, Billy stumbles through a world where kindness can kill you and cruelty can look divine."In the end, he must face the hardest truth of all: who hides behind masks, and who shows their true colors?"