The Last Nail is a Chinese feature length documentary that investigates the friction in political powers, ethics, traditional norms, and how it influences the freedom of death. It reveals a massive Funeral Reformation that happened in 2018 in Jiangxi Province and the consequent impact on the millennia-long local tradition of burying bodies in the ground. Told in three chapters, the film documents the elderly locals’ loss of their coffins which brings anxiety and the fears of the forced cremation after their deaths. It also tells a story of a coffin maker who loses his livelihood as the government prohibited coffins.