There is a strangeness about Christabel Alderton. Elias Newman can see it right away. Christabel has been troubled by a sort of second sight since she was 13 years of age, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. She sings with a band called Mobile Mortuary and they make their onstage entrance climbing out of body drawers. She is obsessed with death. Elias Newman is a diabetologist and is keen to know Christabel better. They are both complicated people who ultimately fall in love.