Casket For Rent

Ataul for Rent is a narrative social satire movie depicting the lives of the slum dwellers of Kalyehong Walang Lagusan a very narrow congested miserable alleycompound in a typical squatters area The story revolves around the lives of a livein couple who owns a smalltime funeral parlor renting out coffins of four different sizes small medium large and extra small Guido the owner doubles as the embalmer while his partner Pining does the makeup and uses the same implements for both the dead and the living and is the jueteng kubrador of the neighborhood Gossipers gamblers drunkards drug addicts exconvicts prostitutes snatchers and other notorious characters regularly hang out in the funeral wakes of the alley either drinking alcohol in the gaming table or just gossiping around These personalities having been born and growing up in this kind of environment see themselves as having the right to abuse their own bodies and cause untold miseries to others