A Nobel Prize winner has lived for years on a meagre, unpalatable diet, to favour an ailing heart. This lack of much heart has made the philosophy of his book coldly cynical. After signing a will that leaves a third of his estate to his younger doctor, a third to perpetuate his house as a sanctuary for his spirit and the final third to the Harvard Law School to insure that the terms of his odd testament will be carried out, he eats a sumptuous meal and dies happily. Instead of the solitude he expected, he is beset by the spirits of an Indian girl pushed off a cliff by her lover, a Southern belle with a disturbing drawl and a phony liberal attitude, and a frustrated composer. Then the pretty cook (a former model) who prepared the fatal dishes returns to the house and is mistaken for his illegitimate daughter. He eventually finds peace by furthering a romance between the doctor and the younger girl.
