To bring her husband José Portal's passion to life and to cut short an abusive administrative eviction procedure that threatens to put her family on the street, Marianne Elbert decides to sell the decrepit and listed town house, owned by her family for five generations. In front of the family vault where her ancestors rest, she launches a paltry appeal for help. Then an event as sudden as it is unexpected occurs: the ghosts of her mother Brigitte, her grandmother Marie and her great-grandfather Alphonse find themselves in the middle of the living room, dragged against their will from their eternal rest...