The patriarch of a family is terrified of being buried alive and in his will requires the family to visit his crypt regularly to examine his corpse to ensure this doesn’t happen. On one of the visits they discover the body has been switched… but not all the body, just the torso. The head is still the same. The daughter is betrothed to a gold-digging doctor of dubious reputation while another man who shares the young girl’s love seeks to release her from the engagement.