A daughter who does not arrive at her own funeral. A mother whose state of denial leads her to treat her deceased daughter as if she were still alive. A father who discovers at his daughter's funeral the worst secret any human ever wants to find out. An aunt more concerned about her next date than giving her niece the final farewell. A very peculiar nun. A detective who can't understand what he's looking for. A German who lands at the funeral without knowing that his past will sweep him away like a tsunami. A funeral planner who will try to maintain order in his charming funeral home while stealing your heart. A hybrid genre book between drama and prose that presents an existential dilema right at your face: if life is so ridiculously meaningless, what stops death from being a burst of laughter?
