Meet Death. A living skeleton in a cloak and wielding a scythe (as expected). The Grim Reaper, the ender of all humanity. No one can avoid meeting Death. But when a village boy named Mort encounters him, Death offers him a job. Mort becomes the Grim Reaper's apprentice, and soon his master decides he deserves a day off—the first in his entire existence. But that same day, Mort saves the young princess Keli instead of taking her life—thus disrupting the entire universe...