Karsh is the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a new tech package that allows bereaved relatives to view their loved ones’ decomposing remains. When his futuristic cemetery is vandalized, he begins to suspect a conspiracy is at work, forcing him to confront the trauma of the death of his beloved Becca.

Technology metastasizes into all aspects of life and death in David Cronenberg’s darkly elegiac film, one of his most personal to date. Weaving an erotics of body horror into corporate paranoia, The Shrouds invents a new form of grieving for the age of digital reproduction and surveillance.