Sarah Jes Austell

When a wide-eyed 10-year-old girl visits her fathers insect laboratory, she receives an unorthodox education in genetics.

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld. (imdb)