Kenneled

Walker, a gig worker and artist, is drowning in the city’s instability. Desperate for agency and financial relief to save his relationship with his ambitious girlfriend, Kylie, he accepts a lucrative but bizarre "dog-walking" job. At a secluded mansion, he meets Doug—a man living entirely as a dog. Initially repulsed, Walker stays, justifying the dehumanization as just another gig. He soon enters a secretive subculture where the wealthy adopt animal personas to escape their humanity. Surrounded by individuals who have traded their identities for a curated existence, Walker finds himself drawn deeper into a world of strange psychological stakes. As the financial rewards grow, his relationship with Kylie fractures. His hypocrisy is laid bare: he rejects her family’s support to "preserve his pride" while secretly degrading his dignity for the amusement of strangers. At a surreal, high-stakes gathering, Walker’s emotional detachment finally shatters. Amidst the masks and the chaos, he faces a hallucinatory truth: in his desperate pursuit of financial agency, he has surrendered the very autonomy he sought to protect. He realizes that in this predatory economy, he has become the ultimate subject of someone else's control.