The ghost woman wails through her house, which she and her ghost supervisor consider to be a convincing act of haunting. The living man and woman, now inhabiting her house, swear that they hear something, though they chalk it up to the wind of tonight’s storm. Meanwhile, the ghost man—her husband—plays with a paring knife in the kitchen. Their ghost supervisor encouraged him to do more violent hauntings, toward which he now plays with sharp objects and occasionally breaks things. When the ghost woman gets upset at him, he throws the paring knife at her, causing it to clatter on the kitchen floor. The living man almost catches them bickering, though the ghost woman and man quickly make themselves invisible.

The ghost woman recalls the murder-suicide that the ghost man perpetrated, which is why the both of them are now ghosts. Since then, they have been haunting the living man and woman—the new residents in their house—for four months. In the afterlife, the two of them still butt heads with one another like married people do, and their ghost supervisor doesn’t know what to do about it. All he can do is write them performance reviews. In one performance review, he writes that personal matters are interfering with their hauntings.

The ghost woman recalls that it was on her anniversary with the ghost man when they both died. On their anniversary, they have a beautiful wedding cake that she made. After she brings it out for dinner, the ghost man pulls out a gun and shoots her dead. In the afterlife, she thinks about what police must have seen at the crime scene. She discovers that there is no heaven nor hell, only a spiritual service where the dead haunt those still living. While the ghost woman and man wait for orders in the afterlife, they fight once more about what just happened. According to their contracts, the ghost woman must haunt and wail on a frequent basis, whereas the ghost man can slam doors or knock objects down. Every week, they reenact the murder-suicide, usually on Wednesdays when the living man and woman aren’t in.

The ghost woman and man are now at odds after the paring knife was thrown. Because of it, the living man and woman are much too alert, cautious about whether or not they are being haunted. However, the ghost supervisor says that it was a wonderful act. He then gives both of them some more feedback: the ghost woman should wail with more anguish, the ghost man should keep working on knife tosses.

One night, the ghost man knocks a wedding photo off of the house’s walls and stashes steak knives in the living couple’s bed, causing the living man and woman to sleep on an air mattress. The next day, the ghost woman and man are called to an emergency training on how to deal with paranormal investigators. Later, the paranormal investigators show up to the house, and the ghost man and woman hide in the attic. They argue some more, causing the ghost woman to act up and wail louder than before, after which the paranormal investigators rush upstairs. The ghost woman is then called in by the ghost supervisor for being too over the top and still letting personal matters interfere with her work.

The ghost woman contemplates the nature of the afterlife and what the point of it all is, to haunt well rather than haunt poorly, to spend all of eternity doing the same-old, same-old with the ghost man. The ghost supervisor tells her that there’s no meaning in it all. Back in the house, a paranormal investigator demands that any spirit reveal themselves. The ghost woman knocks a few objects off of dressers and then looks at the ghost man. The ghost woman then appears before everyone and wails. All of the living people wail back at her.