Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life... by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from a speeding car the afterlife didn't know what to do with him so it gave him a second chance at life. Now Yusuke is a ghost with a mission performing good deeds at the behest of Botan the spirit guide of the dead and Koenma her pacifier-sucking boss from the "other side." But what strange things await him on the borderline between life and death?