Rest in Peace tells the story of two sisters, Mabel and Batavia Dibble. Mabel is dead and Batavia has stolen Mabel's most valuable possession from her open coffin. Mabel haunts her sister in ghost form. The film pays tribute to the early silent film period.
Silent black and white images evoke and simultaneously erase time, as an elderly woman is shown at various ages recounting the love of her life. While braiding her hair on a staircase, she recalls the walk up the hill, the passage to look at the vista beyond the backyard, and the first time she met her husband at the ocean's edge.
