Tholang has been working as an undertaker in Soweto for as long as anyone can remember. He’s great with death, but not particularly good with life. Things go awry when his niece arrives to apprentice under him and manages to lose the corpse of an important politician. Over the course of their journey to recover the missing body Tholang must face the world he has been avoiding all these years. Stiff is a dark comedy set and filmed in Soweto, South Africa, about how we cope with life.