Violette Toussaint是勃艮**个小镇墓地的看守者。年轻时候的她嫁给了十分英俊的Philippe, 直到有一天丈夫离家出走，再也没回来…… Violette在墓地会遇到形形色色的人，来这里悼念亡灵的访客有正大光明的，也有来偷偷探望已故情人的。Violette平静的生活有一天被一个来访的警察打破了。警察名叫Julien, 他刚刚去世的母亲在遗嘱里交代，不要把自己的尸体和丈夫埋在一起，而是要化成骨灰，存放在这片墓园一个已故陌生男子的墓碑前。这个已故陌生男子正是Julien母亲的情人。然而Julien母亲这段过往的秘密情史，却和Violette的过去、24年前一场古堡大火烧死的四个女孩交织在一起。

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest.

Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit his mother’s ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother’s story of clandestine love breaks through Violette’s carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely determination to find out who is responsible.