Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti.
There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard ; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man.
But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard , friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead ...