Anne begins her training in an old mansion converted into a hospice in the Turku archipelago, the Isle of Death. Her enthusiasm exhausts the nurses, and Anne is relegated to the dirty work: washing floors and, if she is lucky, corpses. One day, Anne is assigned to her first patient, a child whose parents refuse to tell her that she’s dying. Anne’s past, in the form of her sister, begins to haunt her and sends her a client, a grumpy sculptor with brain cancer.
It soon becomes clear they have a lot in common, and here it comes – the irresistible connection. Fighting her feelings for the sculptor, Anne pushes herself to the limit of workaholism, helping through the veil a wine merchant, a lonely mother and a beloved pet, among others. Each episode of Death Doula is dedicated to a particular patient, who Anne accompanies to their deaths. With each patient, Anne must acquire and develop different skills in order to help the dying people make sense of their lives before the end.