One stares at a night sky full of stars, and the other stares at a cavern's ceiling infested with glowbugs. She is the rose full of life, and he is the bat hidden in the dark. Saffron, a human girl, finds herself in the underworld, but not in the afterlife. Charon, the ferryman of the dead and damned, finds himself taking care of the most annoying, yet beautiful, mortal ever.