I would call it "The Burned Man".
It would be set in a small town in the US, maybe in the southern states. It starts out following the daily routine of a man living in this town, but he is covered in bandages, leaving only his eyes visible. He does try to cover most of the bandages with clothes, though.
One day, a young woman moves to this town, for whatever reason, maybe to work there. She gets to know all the locals, starts to feel at home, yadda yadda. She crosses ways with the burned man, let's call him Mike for now. He is nice but very shy, everyone is friendly to him and they treat him like everyone else. The young woman, let's call her Sarah for now, starts to get interested in him, his backstory, and why he is bandaged. They start something like a tender friendship. He tells her he used to read a lot, but because of his physical pain, can't concentrate for long, so she offers to read his favourite books to him. And stuff that makes them more close, yadda yadda.
Eventually, despite all the odds, she realizes she likes him, and becomes really curious about what happened to him. At that point she already heard about an incident that happened in this town a few years ago. She respects his wish not to be asked about his situation, but her curiousity makes her ask the locals. But somehow, no one is really getting into it, most people act evasive. One person however mentions a retired psychologist Mike used to visit, and after some research, Sarah tracks him down.
She also finds out that the "incident" a few years ago involved a horrible accident in which the local school burned down and eight children died in the fire.
After some back and fourth, she finally gets the information she wants from the psychologist. But the conversation happens off-screen, so the viewer doesn't know what he tells Sarah.
In the next scene, Sarah visits Mike, she's calm and friendly (they probably had one or two heated situations when she was being too curious) and carries a bag. Both sit down, Sarah takes a mirror out of the bag and places it on the desk infront of Mike. Conversation conversation, she tells him to take his bandages off, because she wants to see him how he really is, and she says he needs to see it too. After some reluctance, he agrees and slowly takes off the bandages. But the camera isn't pointed directly at him, we only see vague movements of his uncovering.
When he is done, the camera is pointed at Sarah's gentle face, she is smiling, then we have a hard cut to the image in the mirror, and we see Mikes burned face. It doesn't look too gross, but his skin is clearly scarred from burning. Mikes expression is stunned, a mixture of slightly shocked and ashamed.
"I'm a monster", he says quietly, with a dry throat.
Then, hard cut to Mike, not the reflection, and his face is seen as completely normal. He says "I'm sorry you had to see this."
Cut to Sarah, who looks sad and bewildered.
END (for now, maybe I'll add a "proper ending scene")
PS: If anyones interested in the real deal, feel free to ask me about the meaning.
PPS: Yes I know the story lacks any detail whatsoever, I have to work on that.
PPPS: Hmmmm, maybe I should add a copyright notice... :D
That is fucking gold dude. You should definitely do something with that.
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