Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
