Hoyt House. 927 NW Hoyt Street, Portland, Oregon. It's late 19th Century Craftsman style beauty beguiles the trauma it houses. Nine ghosts, each a remnant of someone's life, are stuck there. Most of them continually repeat their unfinished business: memories of guilt, death, violence and loss. Repetition endlessly repeating itself. Unresolved karma.

Matthew is the most conscious ghost at Hoyt House. He stewards it as if he was the guardian for the other lost souls cohabiting there. Among them is his sister, Jill, stuck in the wheel chair where she died.

Each one is anchored to their own dismal portion of the afterlife until a new ghost shows up: Margot Green. She is rather lively for a ghost, in part because she does not remember dying just minutes ago in a car crash. This was to have been her birthday party. But everyone totally ignores her, except for eight year-old, Beny and a rat terrier, Greta. Frustrated it all, Margot gets pissed and tries to raise a ruckus.

That gets Matthew's attention. He welcomes Margot with, "Hey you! What are you doing here?"

Margot believes that this is just a wild lucid dream till she discovers that she's dead. Now, she is desperate to tell her friends what happened. That proves to be a challenge.