航班上的一次命运攸关的交流对丹尼尔·墨菲有影响。他留下了一个他不认识的人的尸体。他被说服接受挑战，从他在克洛纳基蒂的家中到拉斯林岛取棺材。A fateful exchange on a flight from New York to Ireland has complicated consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse, the body of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting an environmentally friendly cardboard coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island by his autistic younger brother Louis and Mary, a flighty young mortician with her own agenda.