I cant believe i didnt recognize you

A haunting, intimate portrait of a lonely, hunchbacked scavenger who escapes unbearable shame by building rag dolls from trash. Convinced life is cyclical and addicted to the ritual of creating, he clings to the momentary clarity that each finished doll brings, even as his mind slides deeper into self-destructive patterns and obsession with suffering. Ostracized by the townspeople and tormented by cruel children, he is falsely accused of a crime, beaten, and thrown into near-death - where a luminous, hallucinatory encounter with a skeletal vision and a remembered kindness briefly restores his sense of beauty and longing. That fragile revelation collapses when he returns to the world of contempt, and in a final, tragic outburst he confronts the embodiment of the life he never had. Tender and terrible at once, the story explores shame, memory, the hunger for connection, and how humiliation can turn a wounded human into something monstrous.