It's a question the bereaved have been asking themselves for years - what would you do if you could have one more conversation with a loved one who'd died?
That's what Mitch Albom investigates in For One More Day. The main character, Chick Bennetto, is a down on his luck drunk. He traces his downfall back to his mother's death nine years previously. Following her death, Chick descends into alcoholic dependency and manages to alienate and lose his wife and daughter.
Finally, at the height of his desperation, he decides to return to his hometown and end his life. However, an accident en route to the house severely wounds him, and he staggers to the old family home. However, when he enters the house, his mother is there, seemingly alive and unaware of the fact that she was buried years ago!