In the house next to the cemetery in a small provincial town during the sixties, a meditative eleven-year-old boy, Frula, proceeds to enter adolescence to the sound of funeral marches and the mournful chiming of the bell atop the cemetery chapel. Surrounded by a grunting father, a coddling mother, a contrary grandmothe…

When a passive young businessman is conned and thrown into great debts, he and his mother concoct a desperate escape plan - to fake his death, stage a funeral, then hide him out in the attic. When he sneaks out to visit his girlfriend, he is spotted by the neighbors, who jump to the conclusion that he is a vampire rise…