There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one. Death and dysfunction are par for the course.

With Ruth remarried, Nate finding his way as a widowed father, David continuing to navigate his relationship with Keith, and Claire building new friendships at art school – the Fishers struggle with the latest losses and additions to the family, whose dismembered pieces never seem to add up to a healthy whole.