In hell, the most high ranking job for a peasant is a Collector, a rare luxury. Akakios, whose name ironically means 'not evil', is one of the most respected Collectors in the business. He is strong, agile and completely impassive, always. Akakios spends as many of his awoken hours as he can collecting, without a break, because well, he would be a goner. Yet one day, something out of the blue disrupts his routine. A once strong, independent fighter is reduced to a weak, almost human, mess of a being by a force so strong, nothing of his power could prevent it.