Hubert Wintor (George Grizzard) can't persuade his widowed mother, Sofie (Patricia Collinge), to lend him any money. However, Hubert is more successful talking Sofie into attending a séance staged by a suspicious-looking medium named Irma (Barbara Baxley). In the course of the séance, a voice from beyond suggests that it is high time that Sofie "cross over" to the other world so that she can be reunited with her husband. Sofie agrees that she'd be better off dead: problem is, she has no intention of leaving this world for the next without a traveling companion.... ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi