Story
Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at a cemetery, where every customer arrives carrying a private loss. He meets grief with sharp irony and keeps an emotional distance from the people around him, treating the rituals of mourning as part of the job. His carefully controlled routine begins to fracture when his fourteen-year-old daughter tries to reclaim a place in his life.
At the same time, Sasha crosses paths with a young businesswoman mourning her son and a lonely old man who has already ordered his own tombstone. Their stories draw him into the cemetery's tense struggle for control, where personal sorrow exists alongside ambition, pressure and criminal intrigue. As the conflicts close in, Sasha has to confront the pain that has shaped his behavior and decide whether he can remain hidden behind cynicism.
Overview
I Work at the Cemetery combines comedy and drama in a story set among tombstones and complicated forms of grief. The cemetery provides an unusual setting for a character study about emotional isolation, family ties and the ways people respond to loss. Dark humor gives the film a distinctive tone, while the surrounding power struggle adds tension to Sasha's personal crisis.
Directed by Oleksii Taranenko, the Polish-Ukrainian production moves between intimate family drama and a darker plot involving competing interests at the cemetery. Its focus remains on human behavior: the guarded manager who turns pain into sarcasm, the mourners searching for a way forward, and the rivals fighting for influence.
Cast and Characters
The film features Vitaly Saliy, Victor Zhdanov, Andriy Isayenko and Alexey Tritenko. At the center is Sasha, a cemetery business manager whose detached manner conceals unresolved psychological pain. His daughter challenges the distance he has created between them, while the grieving young woman and the lonely old man bring different experiences of loss into his world. Around them, the cemetery's rival figures intensify the pressure on Sasha and test how long he can keep his past out of sight.
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