Gerard Way has killed countless people without much of a choice, he leads a life burdened with emptiness and dread until he is hired to kill Frank Iero, a boy drenched in sadness. But when Gerard finds that killing this boy is a mysteriously impossible task for him, what is to come of the pair?

Gerard has no friends. Literally none. Even his own brother is horrible to him. So what happens when he makes friends with a teacher? And when he makes friends of his own?