An adaptation of his own novel of the same name. "Dix ans que les deux hommes s’étaient perdus de vue et puis, d’un coup, ils se retrouvaient au détour d’une rue, face à face. Le hasard, para?t-il, fait bien les choses. S’il s’agissait de lui, il aurait mieux fait ce jour-là de se mêler de ce qui le regardait, mais il n’y était pour rien. Skender le comprendrait bient?t, ce n’e...
The elderly caretaker of a remote morgue possesses an impeccable memory for everything but names. He passes his days showing corpses to those searching for their lost ones and tending to his beloved plants. When protest in a nearby city breaks out and the militia covertly raid the morgue to hide civilian casualties, he discovers the body of an unknown young woman. Evoking memories of personal loss, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial with the help of a mystic gravedigger who collects stories of the dead, an old woman searching for her long-lost daughter, and a hearse driver tormented by his past.
