The cemetery caretaker and the ashen-faced trembling young man make an odd pair as they stand by an open grave in the pale moon.

In the grave is a coffin. The lid has been opened and inside is the freshly buried corpse of a middle aged man who has spent the previous two days in the city morgue.

The caretaker assumes the young man is a grave robber and tells him that the police are on their way. The young man tells him that he thinks the man has been buried alive and starts to recount the tale of why he should believe such a strange thing.