Crista's first marriage ended with her husband's death. She is left with their child, Jennie. Now Crista is married to George Spalding. Her life, centered on Jennie, is returning, until... Jennie is found dead, floating in a nearby lake. Crista cries out, "How could this happen?" Only one person knows: Jennie. Strangely, Crista enters the world between life and death. With the aid of an eccentric, ridiculed psychiatrist, she meets Jennie in the light beyond...and Jennie tells her how she died. And it is Jennie, from beyond the grave, who exacts revenge on her killer and brings peace, laced with tragedy, to Crista.