Psychiatrist Dr Karl Adler is troubled by the memory of an illegally performed autopsy he carried out on a former patient ‘Monika’ - a young woman who suffered from a complex delusional disorder which manifested itself in the falsification and acting out in real life of numerous elaborate online identities and histories. Her death evokes in him an existential crisis. He meditates on the bounds that separate life and death, and concocts a maladjusted theory which negates spirituality and glorifies corporeal biology. In this, his own delusion, he considers the subject of his dysfunctional case-study ‘dead but still alive’ and decides to give her something which she can take with her to the afterlife…