A woman comes home dreading her grandmother's funeral, but she finds that moments of shared sorrow allow families to come together and celebrate life.

After their friend passes away, a man attends the funeral and falls deep into reverie while hearing a song's drum beats.

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.

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

During WWII, a lieutenant's death prompts his father to plan an unnecessarily theatric funeral. The late lieutenant's brother is disgusted, knowing the dead man would have hated such an empty gesture.

A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.

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.

A man attends a classical music concert and uses it as a surrealistic form of escape as he copes with the news of his mother's death.

When a young girl in a contemporary northwestern American town dies, one of her neighbors and former friends rethinks her relationship with death.

Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.