The Professional Mourner

When Milica Stankovic is born, she won't stop crying. The neighbours complain, her father is demoted at work, and the family is treated like pariahs. Regardless, her parents see something special in their daughter, how she seems possessed of a rare gift: to feel other people's pain and suffering as if it's her own.
When her father becomes friendly with a wily confidence trickster, they dream up a plot to hire out Milica's services as a professional mourner. At the many funerals she attends, ...