Teenage Kato Hoeven wakes up in Hotel Beau Séjour without any recollection of what happened the night before. No one seems to be able to see or hear her except a few select people, but why? Slowly it sinks in: she's dead. Who did this to her? As she investigates her own mysterious death, Kato unravels a web of secrets in her seemingly tranquil village community.

Former naval officer Maurice sees his own lifeless body dangling from the mast of his sailboat “Beau Séjour”. He wakes up on the beach hours later, but nobody can see or hear him. He’s dead—apparently, a suicide. What is going on? That his family is glad to be rid of him becomes painfully clear from the harsh, cold reactions of his three daughters and his ex-wife to his death. Maurice starts to in...