Business transfers involve risks, especially when it comes to delicate services.

Like the established Brussels family business Assurances Omar, which offers reverent repatriations to Morocco in the Molenbeek district.

The offer: traditional burials in native earth all-inclusive and completely carefree.

For the relatives, of course.

Business is good, after all people always die, burials in Brussels graves are a no-go for conscientious Muslims.

But when Omar Boulasmoum (Ben Hamidou), senior boss, leaves for Mecca and not only bequeaths the shop to his long-time employees, the patent daughter Nadia (Ahlaam Teghadouini) and the sensitive "Drama Queen" son-in-law Rachid (Saïd Boumazoughe), but also to his worthless son Ishmael (Yassine Quaich),

The Belgian-Moroccan-German crime comedy "Salam - Rest in Peace", which is well worth seeing, is neither just situationally grotesque, nor does it merely show the activities of a young ne'er-do-well who always wants the good and usually ends up in trouble.

The eight-episode researched field of tension is formed by unquestioned tradition versus personal feelings of the bereaved.

Cultural tradition in the clash with changed living conditions shape the dramaturgy and dialogues of "Salam" (books by Zouzou Ben Chikha, Wannes Cappelle, Dries Heyneman, Tom Dupont and Lars Damoiseaux based on an idea by Zouzou and Chokri Ben Chikha, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, camera Maximilian Dierickx).

Each episode begins with a short cinematic version of a sudden death - played backwards.

All striving is vain

There is the Muslim woman who dies in a traffic accident because she bent down for her mobile phone in the car.

As a carer, she has just cleaned up an incontinent old man and said, slightly disgusted, that she "never wants to grow old".

Which promptly came true.

Or the famous Muslim soccer player, known as “the acrobat”, just presented at the new club's press conference to a great deal of media acclaim, who unexpectedly breaks his neck in front of the press while training on the pitch.

One click and that's it.

All striving is vain.

Assurances Omar is at your service.

Recently also with a YouTube video in which Ismael, known as "Smile", supported by his buddy and roommate JB (Ward Kerremans), praises the most brilliant business idea since his flopped pizza scissors.

Smile has just as little to do with religion as with played piety.

His own mother has been buried in Tangier for years and he misses her terribly.

After all, who wants their loved ones, dead or not, two thousand miles away?

Smile's "stroke of genius": no more exporting the dead, but importing Moroccan soil.

Zack, bäm, funeral in Brussels, but in the native soil.

Viral hatred follows.

Next door, a strange convert moves in whose probation officer is concerned.

Brahim (Tom Vermeir) begins helping out at Assurances Omar in consultation with the Imam (Mourade Zeguendi), although he would much rather travel to Egypt for a Standard Arabic course.

Smile and JB's shared apartment has an uninvited female addition.

Your landlord Mario (Dries Heyneman), operator of a dubious gym, lives under the slipper of the device-hardened Vanessa (Emilie De Roo), a despicable blackmailer.

Corpses go missing and are retrieved under strange circumstances.

Distributing funeral flyers to patients in the geriatric department of the hospital (“optimized targeting”) yields suboptimal results.

Above all, however, obtaining the right soil is by no means as easy as you might think.

Like most complex humor, “Salam” works by breaking taboos and playing with stereotypes.

Questions of a successful life and a good death are the foundations on which the collected prejudices of this "Culture Clash" comedy happily push each other.

Smile's naivety is also a sign of his and his friends' openness.

Their striving is called "Bling Bling", their role models are filthy rich rappers.

Times are changing.

The Molenbeek district of Brussels, once used as a synonym for Islamic terrorism and presented in countless reports as an example of the failure of integration, is decidedly diverse here.

The intentions of Brahim, the convert, remain unclear for a long time.

Could he be a terrorist?

“Salam” effortlessly balances such cheap suspicions and realistic tickles in a decidedly liberal, life-affirming atmosphere.

Family is held up.

Life is too short to hold grudges.

Salam - Rest in Peace

is in the ZDF media library.

At ZDFneo, all episodes will start on August 20th at 9:55 p.m.