Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

• grief
• Death
• hasidic judaism
• To Dust
• Shawn Snyder
• Géza Röhrig
• Matthew Broderick
• Sammy Voit