Milton Mulberry Jr. is a young boy destined to continue a long family line of morticians. Shy and often bullied, his childhood world is turned upside down when he falls for a delightfully peculiar blind girl at school. When her family has to move away, their fleeting romance is unceremoniously put to an end. Milton lives out the rest of his life heartbroken and secluded in his family mortuary. Finally at 76 years old, he decides to take his own life by electrocuting himself in the bathtub. However, unexpectedly Milton rises from the grave and is compelled to seek out the one girl who stole his heart. Whimsical carnage ensues when the obnoxious bullies from his youth stand in his way.