Day in,day out,Quito medical examiner Arturo watches as the recently deceased make one last stop before the grave. Although he takes pride in his professionalism, the indelible taint of death slowly starts to eat his soul. Filmmaker Victor Arregui paints an Altman-esque picture of life and death in Ecuador’s capital city that is at once dark and oddly uplifting. We’ll all shuffle off this mortal coil, we’re reminded, but it’s what we do while we’re here that counts. (note courtesy 2008 Miami Film Festival)