The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

In 1924, in the Welsh village of Narberth, undertaker Wilfred Price proposes to a girl he barely knows at a picnic. Almost instantly he knows he has made a mistake - he does not love her. He thinks it will be easy to extricate himself - but a chance meeting at a funeral and the revelation of a long-held secret complicate his world beyond recognition...