The annual feast of the funeral fraternity. Enar Matias

A young researcher goes from noisy Paris to a distant French hinterland. He dreams of studying rural life and morals of local residents in detail. The local mayor becomes a conductor along the paths of the swamps.

, Funny and terrible secrets will open up to the hero behind the guise of everyday life. After all, even his counselor part -time and vocation is also the main coffin, a young wild boar is a container of the soul of a local abbot, and a village fool is a true guide... And they are all subordinated to the eternal transformation of fate, the inexorable wheel, the cycle of life and death. Only once a year it stops, and death takes a break. Then members of the funeral fraternity gather for their annual feast to discuss urgent issues and glorify life - filling their stomachs with a west, drinking liters of wine and stunning with table speeches! They definitely know everything about the world and man.

, exquisite, rich in cultural and historical allusions, in some places homerically ridiculous, Rabelaisian, in places the psychologically piercing text of Matias Anara-a real literary feast.