A young woman visits an undertaker to organise the funeral of her father. Unusually cheerful and self-possessed for someone freshly bereaved, she catches the eye of the friendly young undertaker and they go out for a drink. Over a glass of wine she asks if she can see her father's body and they go to the embalming suite where the undertaker, in a spectacularly ill-judged moment, shows her a special trick with disastrous consequences.