Un cementerio perfecto

The renowned engineer Víctor Bagiardelli arrives in Coronel Isabeta to finally build the cemetery the town has never had. The father of the municipality’s highest official, Mayor Giraudo, is nearing death, and his son refuses to let his parent’s remains rest eternally in the neighboring town of Deheza: "The forms he had envisioned in solitude would leave the inhabitants of Coronel Isabeta spellbound. And so it would go for years on end: as the trees grew to their full size and attained their ideal shape, as the foliage colors shifted with the seasons, as there was always—in any given month, just as he had planned—some flowering shrub, and as, summer after summer, the scent of fresh pollen flooded the air." Silvi has told her parents she no longer believes in God; that is, until a Mormon named Steve arrives in town during the holidays—smelling of mist, moss, wood, and crystal-clear streams, thanks to his green Axe deodorant. Silvi’s atheistic principles waver in the face of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even as her budding desires for sex and freedom begin to bloom. After years of living surrounded by nature in their home amidst the pine forest, old man Wutrich worries about his and his daughter Mabel’s future in the face of the relentless advance of chainsaws. Down in the greenhouse valley, beside the reservoir, young Sakoiti is determined to make Mabel his wife and settle her father into a nursing home.