After a complicated divorce, Gabriel rents a remote house to live by himself. In one of the rooms he finds a strange box which contains different objects, each of which relates to an unresolved crime. Finding the connection between the victims and working out who the killer is become his obsession.

A sinister gravedigger recounts some of his favourite tales of love gone awry in horrific fashion, from an anniversary celebration on a ghost train, to a deeply unsettling romantic getaway, to attempts to keep a loved one safe during a virulent pandemic.