One after another, female students are being killed within the walls of the high school—an unknown killer is stabbing them in the genital area. Suspicion falls on a young physical education teacher who is trying to hide his romantic relationship with a high school student.

The old man learns that he doesn’t have long to live and decides that a playground on the site of a foul-smelling vacant lot is what he will leave behind for the world. Alternately insisting and demanding, then pleading and humbling himself, he navigates all the circles of bureaucratic hell to gather the necessary signatures, resolutions, and stamps.