Four men; a Hispanic mechanic (Tommy), a little person lawyer (Toby), a black professor (the Professor) and a mean spirited New York city Jewish art critic (Goldman) all die and end up in a quaint cottage in Heaven. But the group quickly learns that the stay is only temporary. They first must make amends for their misdeeds in life and somehow find a smidgen of faith, all in seven days. It is all for one and one to fail and send them all to – you know – that place.

Each of the men must also learn to stop swearing, which is proving hard for the cranky Goldman. He alone has used up the majority of the 200 ‘bad words’ allowed to them all. Meanwhile the professor who will only believe in evolution naturally refuses to believe in Heaven, and Tommy just wants to go back to Albuquerque and be with his wife and young son. Toby’s body is in Heaven but won’t wake up. It seems Toby, the attorney, is so angry about getting murdered he has refused to leave his home on earth and is sticking around haunting his murderers. It’s not a happy group. The one thing they all agree on; disliking their guide in Heaven, the perky Abu, the counselor. It all comes to a turning point when the group is forced to go back to earth, become ghosts, and convince the ghost of Toby to go into the light and return to Heaven with them. Of course, it is never as simple as that.