Baki is a gassal, a man who washes the bodies of the dead before they are buried. Baki is a sarcastic, middle-aged misanthrope with no family of his own and only one friend. One day, an unknown person tries to kill the gassal in the cemetery by stabbing him. Baki survives the attack, but he begins to think deeply about his own life. The question that concerns him the most is who will wash his body when he dies. His only friend and his wife decide to find this gloomy man a wife who will finally give him a taste of life.