Marty (Alfred Molina) is a down-and-out jazz musician with vivid desire for succeeding, however today he's living on the side and also making small cash by providing music lessons to individuals that don't seem to want them. His occasionally sweetheart, Sheila (Maggie O'Neill), is a barmaid at the Rose of Sharon, a neighborhood club possessed by the hot-tempered Frank (Seymour Cassel). Eventually Sheila takes an old rocking chair out of the bar's storage space and also gives it to Marty; he after that uncovers that the chair is haunted by 2 ghosts, a middle-aged female called Lilly (Marianne Faithfull) and also a precocious little girl named Ruthie (Rachel Bella). Ruthie seems to be from the millenium, yet Lilly is contemporary. These relaxed souls show up to Marty and enliven his life with non-threatening tricks, however points transform serious when Marty uncovers Lilly was Frank's other half, who eliminated her in a fit of rage. With the help of the temporal, the ghosts intend revenge.