After her life ends abruptly, Georgia “George” Lass is startled to learn that the afterlife is real and that she has already been given a job. Under the guidance of her new boss, Rube, she becomes a reaper, one of the many assigned to collect the souls of the living at the moment of death and escort them onward. Unwilling and unprepared, George faces a strange new existence in the world of Grim Reaping.