George has no idea what she wants to do with her life, and at 18 years old she finds herself a high school graduate with no drive. She takes a dead-end temp job to earn some cash and get her mother off her back, but all her problems disappear the second a toilet seat for the Russian spacestation Mir falls to earth and hits her right on the head, ending her life.

Now this is where her story is supposed to end, but actually it is where it begins, because George has been chosen to become a Grim Reaper: A 'working stiff' if you will, whose job is to guide those that pass away to their proper place in the afterlife.

When George meets her coworkers and gets used to her new situation she begins to realize that living might just not have been for her.