Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, 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.

Géza Röhrig
as Shmuel

Matthew Broderick
as Albert

Sammy Voit
as Naftali

Leo Heller
as Noam

Isabelle Phillips
as Shprintzel

Sarah Jes Austell
as Lab Receptionist

Natalie Carter
as Security Guard

Bern Cohen
as Reb Goshen

Linda Frieser
as Wake Goer

Ben Hammer
as Rebbe