When death is your business, what is your life? For Nate, David, Ruth and Claire, the world outside the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home is at least as challenging – and far less predictable – as the one inside.

After owner/patriarch Nathaniel Fisher is killed in an automobile accident, his surviving family – wife Ruth, sons Nate and David, and daughter Claire – cope with the tricky business of looking to the future while being constantly reminded of the past.