Joseph Fulton, a well-regarded fifty-eight-year-old director of romantic comedies, wants to become assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery. He wants to work outdoors and be close to nature. Meanwhile, he thinks it’s important to have his last will and testament drawn up. But his highly dramatic actress girlfriend thinks he must be dying and that he is just too brave to tell anyone. The rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows—and some he doesn’t—are crowded into his small apartment to say their last farewells.
Cecilia is a therapist who coordinates a support group for oncology patients. Her rules: listen, don't judge, don't get involved. Everything changes when Juan and Lucía, two strangers with terminal diagnoses, fall in love