A GHOST SEARCHES FOR THE MEANING OF BOTH HER LIFE AND HER DEATH. Forty-nine-year-old Southern society belle Ladell Allen commits suicide on Christmas night 1948 in the wake of yet another failed love affair. The dead Ladell spends the next six decades revisiting the past, as well as watching the world change within and beyond her home. She interacts with other ghosts including her beloved papa, who coaxes her to ride in his ghostly black Cadillac...