A woman walks by a familiar alleyway, reminding her of a past that she regrets. As she walks away she suddenly is frozen in her tracks. Something part of the woman yearns for that ugly past.

After a millennia of taking souls, Death decides to hang it up and finally get one of those "lives" humans are always talking about. Before he can do that, he has to deal with Ashley; a teenage girl determined to end her life. This leads to an ideological tug of war as the two of them debate the question "who controls your life... and death?"