The Death and Sale of Alexander Goland

To help her, a burial-by-proxy scheme is hatched. For a fee, plus tax, of course, the government decides to sell 24 ct. gold certificates to the common people who begin buying them on behalf of their dead loved ones, not buried with the pomp they deserved

The certificates are to be placed with Mr Goland in his coffin wherein both will receive a lavish state funeral

Unfortunately Mr Goland, who has been kept on ice, literally, in his ice cream truck, is misplaced when the truck is towed away for a parking violation

Chaos reigns when Mr Goland, not dead at all, thaws, is reunited with his wife and, through twists imaginable only in absurdist comedies, becomes the Minister of Social Services, through no fault of his own