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In South Africa, about 350,000 die of AIDS every year. Undertakers are doing a brisk trade and cemeteries are bursting at the seams. Around 800 burials are held at Avalon, the oldest and largest of Soweto’s cemeteries, every Saturday, which is the only free day available to working relatives. The number of people suffering from HIV in South Africa is still rising. We meet the manager of the Kay Vee Funeral Home, and business is booming. On an average Saturday he oversees around 80 funerals. With the help of reliable contacts, he secured a lucrative contract with the government to bury the countless anonymous AIDS fatalities. He collects the bodies from hospitals and police stations, earning approximately 50 euros per head. Not bad for a funeral that in fact involves little else than digging and filling a hole in the ground. What does this explosion of disease and death mean to the young generation of South Africans? Zulu girls who live in Soweto and witness the crippling effects of AIDS every day say they have no plans for the future. With a hazardous life-style and lack of health education, the prospect of a plot for them at Avalon may not be very away.

Netherlands - 2005 - 50 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 - Colour

Director Lies Niezen, Lee-Ann Cotton Camera Peter Brugman Sound Musa Radebe Editing Luce van de Weg

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