A down on his luck and out of work builder is persuaded by his somewhat crazier friend to take a dubious late-night job for hard cash. In fact, the job turns out to be a very strange form of house sitting, as the two men are employed by an apparently grief-stricken father to watch over his dead daughter's body until he returns at eight o'clock the next morning. As soon as the father disappears, the builder's mate also does a runner to a club with some girls, and our more than slightly un-nerved leading man is then beset by a whole host of unexpected incidents and appearances from people whom no-one has told him about.