Destined to be a mortician in the family mortuary business, young Milton Mulberry is a reserved schoolboy who thinks about death a lot, as he has learned from an early age that, inevitably, we are all going to die after all. But when Milton finds his first love in the person of Lola Littleton, a girl expert in Kung Fu, the towering obstacle of death begins to crumble before the omnipotence of true love.