When recently widowed Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) and her two children, Jonathan (Dan Byrd) and Jamie (Stephanie Patton), move to a small town in California, they plan on making a brand new start in life. Having just finished studying to become a mortician, Leslie hopes to revive the long abandoned and run down Fowler Brothers Mortuary, a business that conveniently comes complete with a cemetery on its doorstep.

But, as the Doyles soon learn, the people of the local community are wary of the site, believing the mortuary and its surroundings lie on haunted ground. And, as they begin to discover there is more than a hint of truth to the rumours and myths concerning the mortuary's previous owners, it becomes horrifyingly apparent to the Doyle family that the embalming business isn't the only thing that's being revived!