[3] The film tells the tale of Esfandiar's confrontation with the Azrael after 40 years of bathing the dead.
With his life flashing before his eyes, Esfandiar is forced to reconsider his behavior towards his co-workers including: an opium addict gravedigger, a naive young man who burns clothing of the dead and a widow who washes dead women's bodies.
[4] Le Monde's Jean-François Rauger wrote: Here is a strange conceptual comedy, a mixture of diverse and contradictory sensations, an experience both abstract and documentary.
Death is at the heart of Mohsen Amiryoussefi's first feature not only because the narrative lies in a cemetery, but because it is the unique preoccupation of the main character.
And the film bears a special attitude towards the latter, in which reflection and laughter intersect in a cocktail eventually unprecedented.