Nick Powell is an excellent high-school student who raises money by selling homework and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel to London for a writer''s course - telling his best friend Pete Egan that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told to his mother yet. Annie Newton has a problem with Pete who owes money to her. As events unfold due to a case of mistaken identity Nick takes a severe beating from Annie and her gang his body dumped in a sewer. The next morning he discovers he cannot be seen - he is now a spirit in a state of limbo and can only observe as the events of that day unfold.