An unlikely friendship develops between aging jazz clarinetist Jim, whose career is ending due to arthritis, and young undertaker Hugo, who is trying to start his own funeral business in their small town, which boasts the highest mortality rate in Britain.

An unlikely friendship develops between aging jazz clarinetist Jim, whose career is ending due to arthritis, and young undertaker Hugo, who is trying to start his own funeral business in their small town, which boasts the highest mortality rate in Britain.