Alison Hart a medium by trade tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past who infiltrate her body and home becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists…