A mousy young woman named Jan (Glenn Close) and her husband Nick (Mandy Patinkin) move into an apartment in San Francisco. Many years ago, this apartment was the home of a 1920s good-time girl named Maxie. Wanting to be in the entertainment industry, she died in a car accident before an audition that could've been her springboard to success. Maxie now occasionally enters the body of Jan and it's going to take a lot to get her out.