Sam Wheat, a young and prosperous banker, leads a happy life with his partner, the artist Molly, until a street mugging ends his life. But instead of moving on, his spirit remains trapped among the living when he discovers that his death was no accident, but part of a conspiracy that now threatens Molly as well. Unable to communicate with her, he turns to a charlatan medium who, to her own astonishment, turns out to be the only person able to hear him. A romantic phenomenon of its time, Jerry Zucker's film weaves together love, supernatural suspense and comedy, with the famous pottery-wheel scene and an Oscar-winning Whoopi Goldberg.