Two cremation sites are shown from a distance, one on the Ganges in Varanasi , the other in Kathmandu on the Bagmati River. The apparently sober approach of those involved in the ancient rituals reveals a very haunting choreography of the processes; animals also wander around the final destination and the grieving relatives cannot always be immediately distinguished from the cremators. The comparison between the very different but in the broadest sense related cultural backgrounds is obvious; saying goobye and decay sometimes ceremonially unites the different religions.
