A cranky, lonely old fisherman fishes on his boat in the middle of the sea. A flock of albatrosses flies over his head, when one of them breaks away from the group and pounces on the pile of fish caught by the man. The bird slips its beak between the fishing net, steals a fish and swallows it. The old man kills the bird by twisting its neck. At that exact moment a ghost ship emerges from the waves. There are two figures on the ship: Death and Life-in-Death. The two look at the old man and, imposing their hands, summon from the bottom of the sea a sea monster whose tentacles take the old fisherman down with them. The two figures bring the bird back to life as it recedes from the now calm waves.