A solitary, melancholy man tormented by painful recollections accepts a supernatural bargain that removes sorrowful memory. The change spreads to others, erasing grievances and past hurts and at first easing suffering but then dulling sympathy, moral feeling, and interpersonal warmth. The narrative follows the social and domestic repercussions of collective forgetfulness, showing how the loss of remembered pain leads to cruelty, emptiness, and unintended harms, and it moves toward a reversal that restores memory and affirms the role of sorrow in cultivating compassion. Episodes unfold in wintry, gothic-tinged scenes and a series of intimate vignettes.