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The world might have many people unhappy enough to commit suicide. But the quirky and imaginative Wristcutters: A Love Story suggests there’s a special place beyond this one for those who take their own lives, and it isn’t very pretty.

The movie presents an afterlife for those who kill themselves that looks pretty dreary, full of broken-down cars rotting on roadsides, roommates obsessed with cottage cheese, cops who don’t inspire a lot of confidence, and messianic losers promising paradise if only the dead will commit suicide all over again.

Into the mucky mediocrity comes Zia (Patrick Fugit), a young man who opens his veins and ends up in this limbo for losers. There, he takes a menial job, finds an unlikely friend and meets apathetic girls in a lousy bar. The monotony of it all is broken up when Zia gets word that his girlfriend back on the mortal plane also killed herself, prompting him to take to the road in search of her.

Naturally, the trip becomes a journey in unexpected new directions including a diversion at a camp for miracles run by an eccentric (Tom Waits). Wristcutters is available on DVD beginning today.