SYNOPSIS: Is there anything worse than being impoverished in 1810 England and sent to live with relatives who think you’re plain, tedious, and unmarriageable? While the prospects for happiness seem dim for the Dashwood girls, Marianne convinces older sister Elinor that learning how to conduct profitable séances at home could yield the necessary dowry for them to attract handsome husbands. Romantic complications ensue with meddling matrons, conniving social climbers, broken promises, shy suitors and a trio of ghosts from the afterlife who wonder why their eternal sleep keeps getting interrupted by a ditzy girl with a crystal ball.