Tru Davies suddenly discovers she can save lives. She is a smart and sexy recent college graduate who lands a job on the midnight shift at the city morgue.

On her first night, Tru questions reality when she hears a beautiful murder victim asking for her help.

When the corpse of a handsome young man asks for Tru's help, she quickly learns he's a determined firefighter killed trying to save two children trapped in an apartment building fire. As Tru tries to change the man's fate, the day gets even more complicated when she develops feelings for him in the episode.

When Tru's ex-boyfriend Mark ends up dead in her bed she has to get closer to him to prevent it from happening.