A snowbound night, 3 AM, and the switchboard lights up with a line that shouldn't exist—the coroner's office internal line, ringing with the voice of a man who died an hour ago. Luna picks up, and the dead man doesn't know he's gone. He's looking for his wife, a nurse at the hospital. Luna recognizes his name: Mr. Alderman, her high school biology teacher. She has to tell him the truth, and in doing so, she crosses a boundary that can't be uncrossed. A story about the last connection, the weight of delivering death twice, and the phone that keeps ringing long after the body is cold.