Emil is unable to cry. Lively moments of joy and sadness do not occur to him. But as even the disgruntled neighbor sheds a tear in the cinema, he decides to finally learn how to do it. He braces himself against an icy storm and gets into a nasty fight with his girlfriend Ida. But no matter what he does - crying just won’t work for him. Only when he starts to talk to his father whom he meets with every week to eat cake in his car, he gets overwhelmed by his emotions.
Twelve-year-old Haljan will follow in his mother's footsteps and become Death, although he would like to avoid this destiny. Through Zoë, who is the same age, he learns to understand and accept his fate. Even though it means that he has to accompany his only friend to her death.
A story about incoming gentrification, even to the darkest mythical corners of the world. The power of the old gods is eternal, but it is nothing against the ubiquity of consumerism. Two characters playing out all the stereotypes they got, to convince each other of an innocence that isn’t there on either side.
