Jim is a young man who dropped out of college, opting for a comfortable income in a union work place. Boredom, women, his declining mother, and an event from his past plague his day to day life. Things take a turn for Jim when he makes a gruesome discovery early one morning. While arriving to work, he notices a large box near the parking lot, and decides to investigate. He opens the box to find the dead body of a young woman. He panics. He reaches in, grabs an item from the body, closes the box, and heads into work. What follows is Jim's continued downhill spiral with his personal life coupled with the growing guilt of what he's taken from the body.