A monk, chooses to be a chaplain in a death ward which he will continue till his end for decades. An interviewing journalist was asked not to publish the book before his death. An account of a man encountering another man and woman's inevitability to the person's fate, emotionally tossed around by aggressive justice minister at the time signing off more death sentences, indifference of kinsmen or religious institutions, and by the monk's inadvertent drop of a word. The monk's presence was required at numerous end of life moment helpless that he could not change what was to happen, not free from what emotional positive or negative influence he had to the dying man and woman. He start to connect better to the inmates when he has gone through his own suffering becoming an alcoholic and admitting it. He became another life sized human being able to be sympathized with.