蘿拉在母親離世後，與感情深厚的繼父佛雷多繼續住在一起。一通來自家鄉舅舅的電話卻打亂了平靜生活，他聲稱老家的警方意外尋獲了她生父的遺體，但在蘿拉的記憶中，自己父親早就拋妻棄女遠走高飛，怎麼會無端出現在故鄉？這宗橫跨二十年的謎團背後，等待著她的卻是意想不到的衝擊真相。

The elderly caretaker of a remote morgue possesses an impeccable memory for everything but names. He passes his days showing corpses to those searching for their lost ones and tending to his beloved plants. When protest in a nearby city breaks out and the militia covertly raid the morgue to hide civilian casualties, he discovers the body of an unknown young woman. Evoking memories of personal loss, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial with the help of a mystic gravedigger who collects stories of the dead, an old woman searching for her long-lost daughter, and a hearse driver tormented by his past.