Novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid country home an 
eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn  the language of the occult. 
Little does Charles dream that the seance staged by the medium will 
summon back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven years. But 
the lady from beyond appears and torments Charles by reminding him of 
their days and nights together. The first wife has a ghostly  plot in mind: if 
she can get Charles into an automobile accident and make a ghost of him, 
life in the spirit world will have more appeal for her. How Charles manages 
to extricate himself from this very blithe spirit makes an hilarious conclusion 
to this very unusual farce.