Vince Locker\'s life is tragic.
The story is a brilliant thought-provoking exploration of grief and death nested in clever humor..
As details of the murdered young woman are slowly revealed, Vince realizes that he has many ghosts of his own to put to rest.
They propel Vince Into the dark underworld of the Funeral industry, life insurance scams, savage politics, a kidnapping, the murder investigation of a destitute unclaimed young woman and threats to Jessica and his young daughter.
The eulogies are hilarious and off the wall, sometimes disastrous and sometimes enlightening.
Although beyond social norms, the trio seize on a quick cash fix that just might help Vince meet his child support demands-comedic tributes for the dead.
Vince meets another of Truss\'s rescues, Winona.
As he stands on Smith Avenue Bridge, suicide seems the only option until he is unexpectedly rescued by an old school mortician named Truss.
His life is in tatters; abandoned by his father as a child, an estranged wife, Jessica, who he seems to disappoint just by his mere existence, and living in his mother\'s house with his bipolar brother and facing foreclosure.
His comedy act for the LaughCom competition has just bombed, ruining any chance of the cash prize he desperately needed.
Vince Locker\'s life is tragic
