A woman is entombed in a crypt by her unloving husband after her untimely death. Her distraught lover enlists the help of his dear friend, the doctor, to visit her tomb and gaze upon her face one last time. Even after a week of her death he desperately wants to see her while the doctor tries to talk him out of it. When they open the coffin they find her alive and find her alive, certainly a miracle has taken place and they seek to usher her away. Before they can leave, the evil husband shows up and demands they return her to him. He decries his situation and the money that will be lost in his new marriage proposal to a rich widow now that his old wife has returned from the dead. The husband threatens to have the intruders imprisoned but the doctor uses his powers of mesmerism to impose his will on the evil man and they escape. There are many more twists and turns to come after that.