Noreen Sandall literally and figuratively lives among the dead when she takes a summer job moving vaults and coffins of a rural cemetery. This would seem the least likely place to find romance. Thinking she will be part of larger work crew, including other women, she is shocked to find she has been tricked into working with just one other young man, who exhibits shy, cautious, odd, and perhaps dangerous behavior. Noreen it is at her own crossroads in life, and is seeking a new road to distance herself from her past, she neither desires romance nor expects crisis in such an idyllic setting. Noreen quickly finds out she faces dangers from both without and within. The cemetery contains its own mystery that she must resolve in order to survive. To handle the bizarreness of their predicament, both characters adopt edgy, ironic humor as their best weapon.