In the 21st century, Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9-to-5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy. The film is in four parts with a prologue and is structured using Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.