1988 Art Barbara is a painfully shy socially awkward teenager underweight acne-ridden and
suffering from scoliosis when he starts the Pallbearers' Club. Members volunteer as mourners
for the homeless and lonely those with no one else to bury them. Art recruits his former bully
Eddie Patrick a fellow slacker Cayla and the mysterious Mercy Brown. Art and Mercy quickly
form an intense friendship but one day Art takes a photo of Mercy and captures a strange
parasitic creature wrapped around her.
