Una enfermera que trabaja por las noches en un hospital se ocupa de atender las necesidades de las familias que han perdido a sus seres queridos. Forma parte de un grupo llamado "Alps", cuyos miembros ofrecen, a cambio de dinero, reemplazar a los muertos en la vida diaria de esas familias.
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to live, he decides to keep it a secret but also to talk to the women in his life about his infidelity.