The Intensive Life Unit

Even though doctors Ondřej and Kateřina look after their patients to the best of their ability they cant prevent their death As heads of palliative care at Pragues General University Hospital they face the inevitability of the end on a daily basis Yet what perhaps makes their job harder is the myriad options now open to them to prolong human life and this at a time when death has become a social taboo Betraying her special brand of empathy documentarist Adéla Komrzý demonstrates that while theres no good or bad way to die theres always a means to improve patients quality of life