Following the untimely deaths of Romeo and Juliet, the Apothecary from Mantua travels to Verona to atone for his involvement is their tragic endings, as news travels of bloodshed and innocence lost. Upon arriving in Verona, the Apothecary is thrown into the middle of the ancient strife between the Montague's and the Capulet's, as war has once again been declared. Fueled by a need to prevent further lives from being lost, desiring to initiate a truce between the family's as he looks to repent for what he has done, and crossing the paths of those familiar and unfamiliar in this world and the next, the Apothecary accepts a fate that may be beyond his control, bringing him closer to his own end.