In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While reeling from personal tragedy, a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology puts Karsh’s enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of his own wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia. Offering the director’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, THE SHROUDS is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite. – Janus Films