George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

When an aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris, he agrees to write positive reviews for bribes, and finds success at the expense of his conscience.