A captivating story of a strong woman who stubbornly believes in happiness despite all the blows of fate. Violette Dušičková is the caretaker of a cemetery in a small Burgundian town. An unusual occupation for a woman. Visitors to the cemetery and local residents come to warm themselves in her office, where laughter and tears mix with coffee and a drop of something sharper. Her life flows in a regular rhythm of daily confidential confessions and sad and smiling memories that visitors confide in her. Each of them tells a different story, all of them have lost someone and hope that maybe the days are not over yet, that they will meet someone or find something that will bring a smile back to their face. Violette listens to everyone, but she carries her story hidden deep within her, just like the red dress she hides under her black cloak. But one day everything changes because one man and one woman decide to rest together forever in her cemetery. Thus, the bonds between the living and the dead are revealed and the seemingly dark corners of the soul become brighter. The author has a rare storytelling talent, she does not lack the ability to make ordinary things extraordinary, to create an extraordinary world full of poetry and humanity around an ordinary woman.