Overview
A small-town funeral musician and aspiring writer, Lena Rosewell 'borrows' life stories of those whose funerals she attends, re-writing & publishing them as her own. When an enigmatic funeral crasher begins to take an interest in her, she must confront her own morality, and decide whether her lack of inspiration on the prairies is worth the weight of her creative choices.
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