Possibly in Michigan

Two women are shopping at a department store for perfume. The opening shots show one of the women leaving an elevator and walking past storefronts, interspersed with shots of a man in a black suit and tie and wearing a mask who seems to be following her. There is no one else in the department store. Behind the establishing shots a simple beat with a woman singing over top plays.

The woman is introduced as Sharon. She is said to have a knack for attracting violent men and making the violence seem to be the man's idea. After reaching the bottom of an escalator (with the man shown to be following her) Sharon meets up with her friend Janice, who is said to be of the same ilk and to have the same taste in perfume. The man following them is introduced as Arthur and as sharing the same inclinations as Sharon and Janice. The two women go to shop for perfumes together, and Arthur is in the background of every shot. Janice remarks that a perfume smells like her mother's "crazy" sister Kate. Sharon says she doesn't think Kate could have been that crazy, but Janice tells her that she once put her pet poodle in a microwave to dry it. The poodle exploded, and both the dog and Kate died. The dialogue is delivered in a sing-song manner with a quiet snare beat in the background. Each time the camera cuts to an over the shoulder view of one of the women we see Arthur standing in the background. The dialogue is interspersed with footage of first an older woman running down a lane, then a poodle on a couch, then someone cutting up a raw chicken with a kitchen knife after Sharon inquires whether Kate put the dog in the microwave to eat it. When Janice says that both Kate and the dog died we once again see the woman running down the lane, then a grainy photograph burning at the edges, and then a large brownstone building crumbling. A simple piano tune joins the snare beat as Janice shows Sharon her favorite perfume. The dialogue is first interspersed with footage of an explosion, then Sharon in a pink dress spinning around, and then a photo of an empty room curling as it burns.

The scene cuts to Sharon in the same pink dress lounging on her couch, intermittently spraying the perfume onto her neck. Arthur is standing behind the couch, gradually moving closer. The scene cuts again to Sharon and Janice walking separately through the department store with Arthur following Sharon, then to a portrait shot of Sharon laying on a pillow with her hair spread around her and decorated with flowers, then back to the department store. A voice over top that might be Sharon's begins to sing about her encounters with strange men, particularly one who ate women. The footage of Sharon and Janice in the department store is cut through with video of Sharon at a dance, dancing with suited men in various animal masks. Janice points out Arthur standing behind Sharon and Sharon and Janice flee the department store. The song over top asks why men become so strange, and if it's Sharon's job to kill them. We see a shot of Janice opening a drawer and holding a pistol, then the poodle from earlier jumping up to eat a treat from its owner's hand as the voice sings "I bite at the hand that feeds me/some kind of animal cannibal." The previous video of Sharon laying on the pillow begins to distort and shift between what looks like a grainy image of a decomposed or burned body.

Sharon and Janice part ways after driving home, but we see that Arthur has followed them and is standing outside Sharon's house waiting for Janice to leave. The voice over tells us that Arthur has worn so many masks he has forgotten who he is. He is likened to the frog prince, and we are told that he hopes Sharon's kiss can transform him back into Prince Charming, or whoever Sharon wants him to be. We see various shots of Arthur in Sharon's front lawn wearing different animal masks, getting closer to the front door. Eventually he takes the mask off, appearing as Prince Charming, and rings the doorbell. We see Sharon asleep, image again distorting and wavering between herself and the desiccated body. Discordant music plays in the background.

Sharon gets up from bed and goes to answer the door, but when she sees who is outside she drops to the ground and calls Janice. We see Janice aiming a pistol at what might be Arthur wearing a bunny mask. She shoots at him once, but he cuts closer and is now wearing a pig mask. Janice shoots again and her phone rings. She answers and Sharon tells her that there's a man at her door, and calls him an animal, seemingly referencing the previous song. Janice asks what she means and Sharon begins to liken him to the characteristics of the Big Bad Wolf. We see Arthur pick up a stone from Sharon's yard which reveals a rotting face beneath it. Arthur uses the stone to break Sharon's bedroom window and sneak into her house. Janice runs out of the house, shooting more masked figures. Arthur comes up behind Sharon still describing his wolfish qualities and says "the better to eat you with, my dear," in a distorted voice. This is the first time we hear him speak. Sharon whips around and she and Arthur kiss.

Arthur hits her and tells her she has two options: he can eat her, or he can cut off her arms and legs and eat them. Sharon asks why in a similarly distorted voice and Arthur pushes her into the bed before responding that it's for love. Janice shoots another masked figure and arrives at Sharon's front door. We see worms from the stone Arthur used to break the window crawling over a black and white photo of Sharon. Sharon tells Arthur that love shouldn't cost an eye and a leg, and asks if he loves her. We see small snippets of a fight before the clip of Sharon laying on the pillow with flowers rises. Sharon bites into a piece of meat she is holding in her hands. The fight continues, with Arthur holding a knife and choking her on the bed. Instead of responding to her question he tells her that she smells good. Sharon asks if there have been others, and Arthur answers that there have been six. We see Janice line up her shot as Sharon agrees to be the seventh, and then Janice shoots. Arthur, now in a wolf mask, falls back against the wall, dead. Sharon falls to the floor in the fetal position, disheveled, and Arthur's body falls on top of her. Sharon rises, and touches her lips in disgust.

Sharon and Janice lay Arthur's body out atop spread newspapers and begin to cut him up. They make soup, and Sharon feeds Janice a bite. We see the both of them sitting at the table, naked, eating morsels of meat off the bone. A masked man stands outside the window, but when Janice points him out he hides before Sharon can see him. The two women wrap the now-cleaned bones of Arthur in newspapers and throw them all into a trash bag which they put out on the curb. A garbage truck comes and collects the trash, hiding all evidence.

• Bill Blume as Arthur
• Jill Sands as Sharon
• Karen Skladany as Janice

The film received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council.[1][2] The year the film was released its final scene was shown on CBN and The 700 Club, where it was described as gay, anti-family, and anti-men.[3] A year later the short film was read as lesbianism by the National Endowment for the Arts[4] and was shown at the Museum of Modern Art.[5][6]

The shopping mall and department store segments were shot at Beachwood Place in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. [7]

The short film first gained notoriety on social media in 2015, and has gained popularity among teens in generation Z.[2][8]

Patricia Mellencamp[9] and Herman Rapaport have written about the short film.[10]

Joanne Morreale called the film an example of a revenge fantasy for feminists.[11]

Chris Straayer said the film was about male violence against women.[4]

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