John, a speech-impaired man, faces a harrowing test of resilience when his pregnant wife leaves him to care for his aggressive, memory-loss-stricken father. After surviving a violent outburst from the old man, John endures a frantic search when his father vanishes, only to find him dead the next morning. Balancing the trauma of loss with the secrecy of his wife’s labor, John performs final rites, culminating in a bittersweet call announcing his son's birth—a poetic cycle of life and death.