Erich is an undertaker with an uncanny ability that he wants to keep under wraps: he can talk to ghosts. Adaline is his best friend and confidante; she has also been dead for longer than Erich has been alive. Together they live in the small town of Tynbury helping souls cross peacefully into the beyond.
Then Erich falls in love with Jenny, a schoolteacher plagued by increasingly sinister happenings, and life as he knows it is turned upside down...