Rodger is a murderer who delights in seeing the beauty of death befall his victims, the way their blood splatters across the pavement. However, one fateful day he is met with an email from a girl named Dawn, who asks him to kill her, though refuses to betray her reason. Rodger, for once in this life, struggles to slip the dagger into her pulsing heart as he realizes he has found love for her within his worthless form. And for the first time, death really is what his victim wants, begs for it from him. Rodger is torn between his love for her, his love for killing, and this newfound wish to keep her alive. However, Dawn's secret threatens tear them apart no matter which he chooses.