The film revolves around a school teacher, Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), who seems very unhappy with her life. She has a selfish, unloving mother, Beatrice (Celia Weston), and a boyfriend, Paul Coleman (Justin Long), who can't seem to figure her out. One night, Anna goes to meet Paul for dinner not realizing he is going to propose to her and ask her to move to Chicago with him for a job promotion. Before Paul could propose to her and ask her to come, she freaks out thinking he's breaking up with her. After an argument in the restaurant, Anna storms out of the restaurant and drives off as Paul tries to tell her he wants her to come. Anna gets into an accident while trying to use her cell phone and drive in the rain.Anna wakes up dazed, confused, and numb. She finds the morgue director, Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson), cleaning her wound and telling her she's dead. Paul, stricken with grief and heart ache finds it hard to accept Anna's death. Anna attempts to escape a few times but is un-successful. During one attempt to escape, she finds a room with a phone and calls Paul. Paul is not able to hear her properly and hangs up thinking it's a prank. Anna finally accepts she's dead when Eliot allows her to look at herself in the mirror, to find she looks like a corpse. She slowly and slowly starts to feel weak and starts to give in to her fears.
During the final preparation for the funeral, she asks Eliot if she can see herself one last time in the mirror. Eliot holds a small mirror and while she stares at herself, Anna takes a deep breathe and notices her breath condense on mirror. She realizes that Eliot has been lying to her and she is not actually dead, but has been injected with chemicals to make her numb and give her the appearance of a corpse. It is discovered that Eliot takes people who he believes are not physically dead, but "have no life left inside them" and prepares them for an actual death, until they eventually die.
After the funeral, Paul drinks heavily and tells Eliot he knew Anna wasn't dead. We then see Anna waking up and realizing she is being buried. She tries to cry out and open the coffin, but she is too late. As she slowly dies due to lack of oxygen in the coffin, Eliot tells Paul to go to the cemetery and find out whether Anna is actually dead or not before it's too late. Paul rushes to the cemetery and digs up Anna's grave to find her alive, as they embrace and Anna tells him "she has always loved him". Paul then sees a flash of bright light and wakes up in the morgue with Eliot cleaning him up. He says he saw Anna and Eliot tells him he never made it to the cemetery due to a car accident that killed him.
The movie ends with a screen of black and Paul's voice saying "I'm not dead!".
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