Sam (the narrator) and his love (also named Sam) have terminal illnesses. They live their lives in and out of hospitals, pretending the world can be theirs forever. Reality forces its way through, and the narrator Sam tells his love a secret that he keeps from the audience. His love goes to a local bridge to die by suicide, and the narrator goes to find him. It starts to snow, and Sam, the narrator’s lover, jumps to his death after one final conversation with Sam the narrator.

Sam compares disease to an unseeable bomb with an unknown detonation time. He compares illnesses to thieves who steal time from people who live—that it is the greatest theft to happen to the world, until he and his friends decided that they wanted to steal even more.

Sam, Neo, Coeur (called “C”), and Sony scope out and rob a nearby gas station. Sony uses cancer as an excuse, while the others walk out with a variety of items including cigarettes, beer, and sunglasses. They return to the hospital where the resident nurse, Eric, catches them coming back; he does not know that they were stealing from a store.