Bram Stoker napreduje začiatok modernej majstra hororr reinvents vampires, z autora The Cabin na konci sveta a Head Full of Ghosts. 1988, Art Barbara is painfully shy/socially awkward teenager, underweight, acne-ridden, a suffering od scoliosis when he starts the Pallbearers' Club. Members volunteer as mourners for homeless a lonely, to sa s one one else to bury them. Art recruits jeho former bully, Eddie Patrick, a hladký slacker Cayla, a mysterious Mercy Brown. Art and Mercy rýchla forma intenzívne priateľstvo, ale jeden deň Art berie na fotografiu Mercy, a captura a strange parasitic creature zabalené okolo hier.