It takes bravery for a film to grapple with weighty subjects like how to live or how to die, topics that are often challenging to explore. Harold is a young man on the cusp of adulthood, and he’s intensely preoccupied with death: he drives hearses, attends funerals simply because he wants to, and repeatedly practices ending his own life. He undergoes a transformation through his relationship with an older woman wh…

Harold, who comes from a wealthy family, seems to crave his mother’s approval, often staging elaborate suicide attempts to get her attention. However, she doesn't respond as he hopes, so he looks for other ways to entertain himself and begins going to funerals. It is there that he meets Maude, an unusual woman with a similar fascination for the ceremonies – plus a taste for stealing cars from the graveyard afterward.…