Artie is your typical sweet neighborhood nerd. But with Artie, no good deed goes unpunished, and he is soon plummeted into the afterlife. But he's not alone. Two people can see him- Elle, a street-smart homeless girl, and Bethany, a former pageant queen who isn't so pageant worthy anymore.

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.