Annabelle Thursby has been dead and buried for more than a century. Tragically sent to the grave by a friend of the family, she learns only minutes before he chokes her lifeless, that he has also murdered her two brothers and father. For one-hundred years Annabelle's remotely buried spirit is restless and void of hope until water company repairman, Claude Pettijohn, through an accident that should've taken his life, discovers her grave, opens a portal to her coffin, exhumes her diary, and learns of her dying wish. But delving into the Thursby family history, he learns fifteen minutes too late, has a horrible price.