Putting makeup on dead people

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Donna's discovery, that she wants to be a mortician, helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.

Donna Parisi, still grieving over her father's death, comes to the realization while standing in front of the dead body of a classmate at a funeral home that she could find purpose in a career in the funeral industry. The plot contains sexual situations.

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Renata Sancken

CRYINGGGG. I just read this all in one sitting. I thought Violi's portrayal of Donna, whose dad died when she was 14 and who now wants to go to college to become a funeral director, was intense and awesome. Violi was so so good at showing, not telling, and you could totally see how everything Donna was doing made sense to her but how much it was hurting her mom, and, and... :(

But also it was very funny in places and very wisely contemplative about death.

November 1, 2011