Cantor Shmuel, a member of the Hasidic community in Upstate New York, is devastated by the premature loss of his wife. He seeks comfort in his faith, but in private, he is preoccupied with the process by which her body would decompose. Following the formation of a covert alliance with Albert, a biology instructor at a nearby community college, our heroes set out on a journey into the criminal underworld that is both darkly comedic and increasingly literal.
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Cantor Shmuel, a member of the Hasidic community in Upstate New York, is devastated by the premature loss of his wife. He seeks comfort in his faith, but in private, he is preoccupied with the process by which her body would decompose. Following the formation of a covert alliance with Albert, a biology instructor at a nearby community college, our heroes set out on a journey into the criminal underworld that is both darkly comedic and increasingly literal.
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