Undertaking is one business that is hardly affected by a recession. And it never occurs to 16-year-old Paddy Belfield when he enters his local job centre for the umpteenth time that he'll emerge with an apprenticeship as a ... ' Funeral Operative '.
Coffin catalogues, Rolls-Royces, cremulators, death certificates: Paddy learns about all these and more - embalming bodies, comforting the bereaved - during the first few weeks of his apprenticeship. He meets everyone from the grave-diggers to the crematorium operators - and his future workmates, who are not above playing the odd practical joke ...
Film cameramen KENNETH LOWE.
PETER MACKAY. Film editor CHARLES DAVES Producer MICHAEL WALDMAN