Mortician Bertrand Strand discovers that the life of his family is more important than his work with the dead as his alcoholic wife Cynthia embarks on an extra-marital affair and his daughter LeighAnna faces a terrible struggle with osteosarcoma.  Discoveries on mortality and the pains of life are revealed behind every closed door and velvet drape of the funeral home, and Bert must make a choice between the family struggling to survive and the noble calling he has served all of his life.