Polly Kinnell is a renowned chocolate taster for many of the world's most famous chocolatiers (Ghirardelli's, Godiva, Hershey, etc.). When her father dies on the Island of Skye, the distraught Polly travels to Scotland for his funeral where she has several unsettling encounters with a peculiar gravedigger, Ian MacIan. Ian, like his ancestors, "buries the dead" as a religious vocation, and he seems to be rewarded with certain privileges...