Charles Condomine is a writer, investigating the occult as research for his next book. Madame Arcati is the medium he invites to his home to conduct a séance, hoping to find she is a fraud... Ruth is Charles second wife and Elvira is his first - but Elvira is several years dead and Charles has put her behind him... At the séance, nothing seems to happen - but why does Elvira put in an appearance shortly afterwards?

This classic Coward comedy needs a cast of five women and two men.