An absurd black comedy about the demise of the Duncan family, and, by extension, the species. Emma Duncan, and her fiance, Tommy, inform Grace, of their intended marriage. Shortly after, Grace's son Todd, returns home announcing he has AIDS. The father, Arthur, reaches out to his son who is more interested in assembling the dinosaur bones he discovered in the back yard. As the wedding approaches, Tommy falls in love with Todd. During a frenzied wedding rehearsal, Tommy is informed he's HIV positive and Emma shoots herself. As winter approaches, Tommy has died, and with further manipulations, Arthur and Grace are also dead. Leaving only Todd. Finally, we see the dinosaur skeleton, now complete. No one knows why the dinosaurs lived, or died, Todd told his mother. He suggests the possibility that their end was the natural order of things 'and no tragedy, or disease, or God'.

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