Attilio is a middle-aged man who works as a necrophore in the hospital. He has an empathic relationship with corpses and closing with the living. This happens with Lucia, a nurse he has been in love with for years and to whom he writes numerous letters that he cannot deliver. A sudden pandemic multiplies the number of deaths and Carlo is joined by Attilio, a young assistant who will lead him to face his social problem and find the courage to confess to Lucia.