Cole Sears, the boy who sees the dead, must help the spirit of John Heginbotham, who was hanged as a spy during the War of 1812, while coping with a bully who seems to be trying to get him expelled from his private school, a former prison.
When his best friend Jason's older brother, Ted, runs away, Cole Sears, the boy who can see the dead, knows it has something to do with a burned man who died in a plane crash.