Mort Oleander wasn't always the assistant embalmer to the world's worst funeral director. Once upon a thousand years ago, he was the G.O.D. (General Operations Director) of the dead, kicked out of the job thanks to corporate-wide strikes led by his brother, Sy.Faced with mountains of paperwork and a staff high on revolution, Sy decides he's acted rashly. His afterlife was meant to be margaritas and getting caught in the rain, not Mort's. Ignoring the inevitable consequences, Sy brings Under out of the dark to mingle with the living.Assisted by a trio of seamstresses living semi-retired in Florida and his ex-girlfriend's daughter, Mort must stop Sy before the Veil dividing Under and Above is destroyed.