The plot revolves around a spreading epidemic of sleeping sickness where spirits appear to the stricken and hallucination becomes indistinguishable from reality.

The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jen, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors.

Doctors explore ways, including colored light therapy, to ease the men's troubled dreams.

The site's consensus reads, "Cemetery of Splendour gracefully eludes efforts to pin down its meaning while offering patient viewers another gently hypnotic wonder from writer/director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

[6] Cemetery of Splendour was ranked 5th in the Sight & Sound 20 best films of 2015,[7] and 2nd in the Cahiers du Cinéma's 2015 Top Ten chart.