In 1969, a jealous ex-boyfriend murders seventeen-year-old Gabriel Williams and brutally beats his girlfriend, Lizzy Liles. Billy Meyer attacks him as they are leaving a beautiful lake point after making love for the first time. His body is disposed of down an old work shaft and life as he knows it changes forever.Gabriel turns his back on heaven to return to earth and help Lizzy, but its too late. After failed attempts to return to heaven he seeks the solitude of his familys home and waits for something to one day happen.When Maddy Rossi is forced to move from Las Vegas to a town in Arkansas as her mother seeks a better life for both of them, she fears her life is over. But not long after settling into her new house she discovers Gabriels spirit already living there. Gabriel and Maddy connect when she takes a dangerous fall and he comes to her rescue. Somehow, they realize, Maddy is serving as a portal for him to appear in the living world.
