A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Tras pasar el peor día de su vida, el descontento reportero de televisión Bruce Nolan consigue un poder divino, pues recrimina a Dios a que no tiene ni idea de cómo está llevando "el asunto". Ante tal desafío, Dios decide darle todos sus poderes para ver si es capaz de hacerlo mejor que Él.
Musty holds down a job as general factotum at the Busy Bee Amusement Arcade, one of his chief duties being that of taking tickets at the entrance to the moving stairway which leads to the cinema theater on the second floor.