14-year-old Suzy Salmon was raped and murdered by a deranged neighbor. As a disembodied ghost, she watches over her family’s life and longs for the killer to be caught.

Four short stories linked by a single character—Ted, a janitor who went to work on New Year’s Eve. He stumbles upon a witches’ sabbath, nearly meets his end at the hands of a jealous husband, barely escapes the gangster’s mischievous children, and takes part in a strange wager between two eccentric gentlemen.