Synopsis
“I’ve brought them into the world and I’ve also looked after them once they’ve left the world. And that was also beautiful!” Quote from Anni Both, midwife and caretaker of the dead. Our documentary from the north of Germany is about manners and customs in dealing with death and the dead – old crafts, the changes in funeral culture, the northern German landscape and, above all, the people, their lives and their language.
They are master carpenters, casket makers, morticians, grave diggers, pallbearers, funeral organizers and caretakers of the dead – people for whom death always remains special despite being part of everyday life.
