Life in the village of Kalachi has changed a lot after the epidemic of a mysterious sleeping sickness. People fell asleep right on the streets and slept for several days in a row.

Novosibirsk: a town in deepest Siberia, where the absurd and the comical are in constant rivalry within the walls of its crematorium. Death can cause the crossing of paths of those never destined to meet, and I, standing in its midst, am learning to grapple with it.