When a widowed aunt who is rumored to have an inheritance of half a million dollars in the 1980s, the local undertaker attempts to sell her niece and nephew a casket and plan her funeral service while also dealing with his personal love life.

A young woman is angered from beyond the grave when her family's greed denies her a proper burial, resulting in her becoming a vengeful spirit rather than moving on to the next stage of the afterlife.

After her father’s sudden death, a middle-aged woman must navigate the absurdities of funeral arrangements while coming to terms with grief itself.

A New Yorker attends a meeting for unemployed workers and the sleazy speakers leave him skeptical about his job prospects.

An American woman tries to follow her sister to the land of the dead to tell her of their parents' demise.

A greedy old landlord contemplates the end of his life as his tenacious tenant's demands of reparation for his wife's death drives him closer to madness. Nearing the end of his life, a stingy landlord refuses to pay for his tenant's funeral bill and becomes entranced by a pregnant squatter on his property.

A seventy-something-year-old woman dutifully visits her husband's grave only to realize that she contributed to the unhappiness of her marriage by letting her husband die lonely and unwanted.

After a father commits suicide in the family house, the house has “psychological impact” – reduced value or no buyers because of what happened there – so the widow and the daughter struggle to sell it and to leave him behind.

A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

The nephew of a deceased housekeeper goes around to different apartments of high society figures in New York City, asking the housekeeper’s past employers if they can spend some money for her funeral arrangements.