Gary Barnes

Freezing Tillie: an Alliance of Strangers Gary Barnes

Would you deep-freeze a dying loved one in anticipation of a medical cure?Alf Kravitz makes that decision on behalf of his dying wife Tillie. He andTillie, victims of the Nazi Holocaust as Gentiles who assisted Polish Jews, suffer the loss of their twin daughters but survive and flee to America. Both know that every day alive is precious. Littledoes Alf realize that the "Institute of Igloology" is nothing more thantaxi-driver Sammy Fitzgerald's scheme to make money by stowing the deceasedin his friend Barney Lewis' basement Frigidaire. Hold on for the wild rideas an alliance of strangers combine to keep Tillie from entering Heaven... until she teaches her husband that it is natural and right to Die withDignity.