Taking place in England during 1980, this film centers on the trials and tribulations of Edward (Bill Milner), a ten-year-old boy. He lives in a nursing home that his parents run and also live in. The business is failing, and his mother finds it difficult to deal with the family's financial problems. Compounding this issue is his father's mid-life crisis. However, Edward is relatively unfazed by such worldly problems and instead focuses on trying to figure out what happens to a person after they die. Edward uses a tape recorder to capture conversations between the afterlife, and through a series of interpretations both funny and sad, begins to obsess about ghosts and the spirit world.