After news spreads that a creepy new undertaker, Sheathing, has moved into Craiglang, nobody quite knows what to make of him. Isa, who's heard the stories, spreads the fear amongst the residents that he's the grim reaper.
When the local undertaker dies his successor Shearing prompts Isa to identify him as the Grim Reaper touting for trade amongst the elderly. With their aged friend Eric dying Jack and Victor wonder if Isa is correct but, at Eric's funeral, several truths are uncovered.—don @ minifie-1