Elizabeth Anne Cole died not long after her husband failed to return from World War II. Her spirit stayed upon the Montana land where their house stood. The years passed. The coal company left having taken the coal and left the land barren save for the lone house up on top of a small hill. When two generations had passed and Brandon Cole returned to his grandparent's land which had been given to him, his grandmother's spirit thought that it was her husband returned to her. Not being able to communicate with him the ghost took possession of the guy's very citified girlfriend merely along for the ride for the day. The pandemonium of life that followed is what the story is really about