Thirty years after it happened, a woman talks to a man about the cruelty they inflicted on a boy from their childhood. She asks if she should bring it up in therapy, and he says no. She thinks he doesn’t understand the nightmares she’s going through, in which she sees the boy she and the others left to die. She feels like back then, they chalked it up to a horrible incident, but in her older age, she acknowledges the intentful silence around it which followed.

The woman recalls the refrigerator cemetery which stood beside the factory which manufactured refrigerators. Rumor has it that the refrigerator factory was co-opted for military use in the past, and now it risks getting torn down for a future development project. Such rumor causes the woman and the man, thirty years later, to venture back and see if they can find the boy they left for dead.

Recalling the refrigeratory factory further, the woman thinks back to the stories surrounding it in her youth. As a child, she hears that people left their dead pets in the fridges. Another story holds that dissidents were disappeared in them. Most of the time, the refrigerator cemetery serves as a place to stay for houseless people. In this day and age, refrigerators still don’t have magnetic locks, so it’s very possible for someone to get stuck inside and die.

One day, the woman—a twelve-year-old girl here—and her friends play a game where each person takes turns hiding inside of the fridge to see how long they can last before passing out from lack of air. One boy suffers a seizure inside, causing him to fall out of the fridge unconsciously. Startled by what has happened, the girl tells her friends that they should put him back in the fridge. They say to each other that they don’t know him that well and that they would much rather avoid the trouble of having caused his seizure. Reflecting back on that day, the woman feels enormous guilt about how they didn’t save him instead.

After the boy disappears in a fridge, the neighborhood seems unconcerned. People know, but there aren’t any missing posters, and the police aren’t going out of their way to find him. From then on, the girl finds it easy to forget about him and move on, but the guilt of her action sharply revisits her from time to time. When she is asked in a group about the worst thing she has ever done, she thinks to that day and is taken aback by what she did.

Back in the present, the woman and man decide to meet at a factory gate near the refrigerator cemetery. However, the man never shows up. The woman then ventures in alone after texting him a message about how disappointed she is at his cowardice. Inside of the refrigeratory cemetery, the woman opens fridge after fridge trying to find the right one. Still, the man never shows. Eventually, the woman stumbles into a disheveled-looking stranger who joins her at the right fridge. He kicks it open and then leaves. Inside, the woman finds clothes but no corpse. She wonders if these things belonged to him or whether he was even dead or alive at all. When the woman tries to leave the refrigerator cemetery, she can no longer find any way out. Wiping away her tears, she sees a boy.