Drama Hereafter tells the parallel stories of three people facing in different ways with the ideas of death and the afterlife. George(Matt Damon) is a North American worker in San Francisco, who has psychic ability to communicate with the spirits of the dead, but refuses to use his gift by starting a business with his brother as a medium because he wanted an ordinary existence and a woman who loves him. Marie(Cécile De France) is a famous French journalist, who miraculously survived a tsunami and has visions of life after death, so she decides to write a book about the limited experience she has endured. Marcus(Frankie McLaren) is a student in London who has a twin brother named Jason and a mother addicted to drugs, which grows them both. After Jason is killed in a car accident, Marcus desperately seeking answers and a medium through which he could get in touch with the spirit of his deceased brother.