When a rotten gravestone kills the cemetery manager, his deputy Butz Bohrlich feels he has reached his goal: After years in the shadows, he can finally take over the sceptre at Donnerscheidt cemetery. But Butz hasn't reckoned with the higher-level Office for Green Spaces - and it hands over the management of the cemetery to an outsider: Ursula Fink turns Butz's life into hell on cemetery earth...