Alice, facing academic consequences after Professor Grimes's fatal accident, undertakes a perilous journey to retrieve his life from King Yama. She must rely on her month of self-taught, fragmented, and unreliable Tartarology knowledge. Navigating treacherous historical accounts from figures like Dante, Eliot, Orpheus, and Aeneas, Alice prepares for this daunting task, driven by moral obligation and self-interest to secure her academic future.