From Wikipedia - "Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the cemetery caretaker in the small town of Buffalora, Italy. He lives in a ramshackle house on the premises, constantly surrounded by death, with only his mentally handicapped assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro) for company, who expresses his ideas and opinions only saying "Gna". Young punks in town spread gossip that Francesco is impotent. He can open up to his only friend, Franco, by telephone, but when they meet in person, have little to say. Francesco's only hobbies are reading outdated telephone directories, in which he crosses out the names of the deceased, and trying to assemble a puzzle shaped like a human skull.

The inscription over the Buffalora Cemetery gate reads "RESVRRECTVRIS", and indeed, Francesco has had his hands full of late. The dead interred in the cemetery rise from their graves usually on the seventh day, reanimated and ready to assault the living. Francesco, as if trapped in a Sisyphean cycle, is duty-bound as cemetery caretaker, to destroy the "Returners" before they overrun the town."