Is it possible to use a UITableView's cells as a mask for a view underneath it?

Question

I want the background image to only be visible where the individual cells are, so as you scroll it reveals different parts of a fixed image underneath. It's basically the opposite of a common tableview with opaque cells over a background, if that makes sense.

I still want the cells to be rendered normally in addition to their edge serving as a mask boundary, since they'd have text and other subviews that aren't just for masking.

I can't find an example, but I've seen this effect before done using CSS and it looks nice. It's not incredibly complicated, but I can't seem to figure out an efficient way to do it in UIKit.