A documentary about an animal cemetery in California and the people who buried pets there. The men who run an animal cemetery, and the men and women who bury their pets, become the subject of this documentary. First we meet Floyd McClure, a spinal cord injury with a dream to create a animal cemetery. One source of inspiration is the death of his collie years before; and the other is the local destruction plant, which turns animals into glue. He realizes his dream, but sees it fail. Then we visit a successful animal cemetery, run by a father and his two sons. One is a frustrated musician who cherishes a broken heart. The other joins the family business after selling insurance in Salt Lake City. Everywhere we also meet the people who buried their pets.

It was outrageous! They were just thrown away in the trash can or just tucked into the ground in any place. Floyd 'Mac' McClure couldn't do that any longer. Then the American animal lover had a eureka moment: it was time for a special cemetery. At the Foothill Pet Sematary in Los Altos there would be every opportunity to say goodbye to your beloved pet in a dignified way.

The remains of Foothill's animals would eventually be moved to the competing Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park in Napa Valley, where the second half of this interview film takes place. There they even have a church that preaches the love of animals. For, as the wife of the house Scottie Harberts puts it: at the gate of heaven God really does not distinguish between biped and four-legged. And that is a fitting parole for this touching portrait of an entirely own subculture, which is also situated in a twentieth century America that has long and wide disappeared.

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