To Dust (2018) Synopsis

Distraught by his wife's untimely death, Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.—Shawn Snyder

Distraught by his wife's untimely death, Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.—Shawn Snyder

Published Time: 2019-05-03 21:57:46