Alexander Jordan is 82 years old and sends for his lawyer to get his will in order, which is to be read seven days after is death. He doesn’t want his selfish nephew Ramsey to get the farm as he knows that he will only sell it and lose all the money. Alexander is afraid of being buried alive and has an alarm fitted in Ramsey and Martha’s bedroom wired from his coffin and to be left there for seven days after his death. When the alarm does go off Ramsey lead by his greed and confidence that he is to inherit has no intention of letting his uncle return from the dead.