Francis Derwent Wood

Obviously the, uh, psych, not just the psychological ramifications through, uh, shell shock or what we call today PTSD, but also the physical changes as well, where he wears now this prosthetic mask that, uh, covers his, uh, face.

And, uh, that aspect of the story was inspired by this real practice that was developed during the First World War, developed by sculptors Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood, where they started out in the medical field, but then during the First World War they started developing these prosthetic masks to cover, um, the faces of disfigured veterans in the attempt to try to reintegrate them back into, uh, a shelter civilian society.

But obviously the story explores, like you could try, you could cover the physical scars of war, but the mental toll still remains, and that's just what the characters, uh, struggle with in the, in the story.

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