As fate would have it (or coincidence, if you prefer), the author of this book worked as a morgue orderly from a young age. That is, day after day he buried his people. He wrote out his personal experience of this extreme craft in the novel in such a way that it does not let the reader go from the first to the last chapter. Together with the author and his hero, we are looking for the answer to the question: who is the orderly? An unskilled technical worker, somewhere on the staff list next to a janitor? Or Charon, fulfilling a higher purpose, a guide leading a person on his final journey? Everyone has their own book. And their own answers to these questions...