The film takes place in the late 20s of the last century in France. Stanley Crawford, a young English illusionist, comes to the French coast to expose the young girl Sophie, who supposedly knows how to communicate with the spirits of the dead. With the help of this gift, she won the favor of a very wealthy family, whose head had recently left this world. Sophie gives an inconsolable widow the opportunity to chat with her dead husband, but many consider the girl a charlatan, profiting from someone else's grief. Stanley is sure that he won’t need much time to take the girl to clean water, as he is a true professional in exposing false magicians and psychics ...