Orphaned, weak, dirty, suffering from leprosy and bald, all these traits characterize the boy "Grave", who is constantly subjected to persecution and bullying by the villagers, both young and old, considering him a harbinger of doom. Grave lives in a small, dilapidated wooden house in the village cemetery where he works as a gravedigger, but all of this will change when he enters a magical maze and makes a pact with the plague!