Loved One

Following the death of a friend British poet and pets mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates death Americanstyle is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée the naïve Californian corpse beautician and Mr Joyboy the master of the embalmers art... A dark and savage satire on the AngloAmerican cultural divide The Loved One depicts a world where love reputation and death cost a very great deal.