The house at the top of Marion Hill was always perfectly manicured. Those of us who lived in the surrounding neighborhood always found this odd since no one was ever seen on the grounds. After receiving an invitation letter to visit the estate, the words “Find perpetual perfection…” ring in your ears for days until you find yourself standing outside the picture-perfect house. Before you can register what is going on, an impeccably-dressed group with wide smiles and uneasy, puppet-like movements swing open the door and invite you into the house with the promise of answers inside. 

The members of the house seem too happy to see you, but something behind their eyes pleads for help. They tell you that the elements of human suffering are the answer to ascending to perfection. These elements of judgement, jealousy, fear, nerve, and deceit are manifested in the physical body’s eyes, heart, intestine, brain, and spine, and are the cause of all suffering. Your corporeal, earthly body makes you weak because it is built of human fallacies, but you can be perfect — just like them — by carving out these weaknesses from your body and replacing them with sewn-in doll parts. 

As we navigate the house, we discover that its exquisite walls and furnishings are forged from the removed body elements of the Marion Estate’s members. It becomes clear that the house keeps them alive so long as they constantly provide it with fresh new body parts to use. With each new room, the members become more marionette and less human. They are clearly suffering but seem adamant that you could be perfect too, if you would just give in. And if you don’t do it willingly, they’re more than happy to take that burden off your shoulders.