The Embalmer

Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mistakes for something more. When Valerio gets a girlfriend, their fledgling romance will be threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.

• sexual obsession
• love triangle
• taxidermy
• unrequited love
• older man younger man relationship
• seaside town
• neo-noir
• evil dwarf
• morbidity
• third wheel
• repressed gay