Novelist Charles Condomine (Ryan Wood) has no idea what he is meddling with when he invites the eccentric clairvoyant Madame Arcati (Lisa Thorne) to his house to conduct a séance.
An unabashed sceptic, it is all part of his cynical plan to gather material for a new book.
But after Charles, second wife Ruth (Michelle Barns), and their dinner guests Dr Bradman (Glen Morris) and his wife Violet (Allison Stewart), sit down for their encounter with the spiritual world, his cunning plan backfires spectacularly.
Charles' deceased first wife Elvira (Cassandra Woodhouse) turns up from beyond the grave, intent on causing mischief and mayhem.
When Madame Arcati, whose love of melodrama is rivalled only by her bumbling inability to accomplish her own objectives, attempts to send Elvira back whence she came, there is an even bigger shock in store for Charles.