The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town,
his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse
keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman, who is
accused of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to
rest because he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led
to the disappearance of many of her friends...