Ars Moriendi
A broke musician returns to a crumbling farm and is offered the land by its dying owner—a poet obsessed with the afterlife. The catch: a ritual pact to carry the old man’s sins. As strange figures begin to appear and the farm bends toward the surreal, he is caught between rebuilding a lost community or escaping a burden that may not be his to bear.
A struggling musician drifts back to the only place that ever felt like home: a dilapidated farm once run as an artist’s commune. Its founder, Leonard—a fiery, dying poet—offers him the land, but with a condition: he must undergo a ritual to carry Leonard’s sins and ensure the soul of the farm lives on. As the musician hesitates, uncanny figures begin to appear on the edges of the property, claiming to help—but their presence unsettles reality itself. Torn between love, duty, and the suspicion that Leonard’s beliefs may be delusion, he’s forced to confront whether the past is demanding more than he can give, and whether music—and sacrifice—can redeem what’s been lost before the world takes even the afterlife from them.
The Art of Dying is a grounded mystical drama exploring legacy, love, and the haunting cost of inheritance. A broke musician returns to the rural commune where he once found purpose. The land is falling apart, the community has fractured, and its founder—Leonard, a dying poet—offers him a way to stay: perform a ritual of "sin-eating" and inherit everything.
What begins as a desperate offer becomes a metaphysical reckoning. As uncanny figures begin to appear and the boundaries of reality shift, the musician is drawn into a strange emotional economy—where guilt, grace, and land are bartered between generations. He’s torn between rebuilding what remains or rejecting the burden of a generation that claimed the world and now asks for absolution, even in death.
Caught between love and obligation, poetry and practicality, he must choose whether to bear the cost of a failing dream—or let the past die with its dreamers.
