Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

An Argentinian girl, about to turn 18, leaves on a study trip to New York, and then decides to stay there. Her caring father goes after her to get her back before her mother can get too worried.