After her estranged father’s death, Iris learns she’s inherited a rundown, centuries-old pub in Berlin. When she arrives to identify the body and sign the papers, she realizes too late what the contract includes: Baghead, a nameless, shape-shifting thing living in the basement that can wear the faces of the dead. Two thousand in cash buys grieving clients two minutes with the ones they lost. Iris’s first customer is Neil, mourning his wife. Like her father before her, Iris is tempted to exploit the creature’s power—until the two-minute rule is broken, and the consequences turn vicious.