The Undertaking

Frontline enters the world of Thomas Lynch, a poet and undertaker whose family has cared for the dead - and the living - in a small Michigan town for three generations. For the first time, Lynch and his family allowed cameras inside Lynch & Sons giving behind-the-scenes access - from funeral arrangements to the embalming room - to the Lynches' world. Through the intimate stories of families coming to terms with grief, mortality, and a funeral's rituals, The Undertaking illuminates the heartbreak and beauty inherent in the journey taken between life and death.