A young San Francisco architect, Arthur, returns to his new apartment after an exhausting day. Relaxing in the bath, he hears fingers snapping in time to the music on his radio. He traces the noise to a closet, where to his surprise, he finds a striking woman. Thinking she's part of a practical joke, he asks her to leave. But Lauren, stunned to discover that Arthur can see and hear her, reveals the extraordinary truth to him. Six months before, she was in a car crash; her body now lies in a hospital bed in a coma. Since then, she's been forced to wander as a spirit, until frightened and lonely she came back to her apartment. The one her mother rented to Arthur after abandoning hope of her daughter recovering.
Lauren finally proves to the initally sceptical Arthur that what she has said is true. Slowly they being to explore uncharted areas of intimacy. But when the doctors decide to turn off the machines keeping Lauren alive, Arthur must find way to save her. Mind, body and soul. For it is only his love that can save her . . .
