Annabelle is forced by her strong mother to run for the Miss Texas election, but tragically dies during a celebration. She was then placed on Elvis' table for corpse grooming. Elvis's life is actually very unsatisfactory, and his family always prevents him from pursuing his dreams. As a result, when Annabelle was miraculously resurrected on the table, the two young people developed a subtle feeling.
Plot synopsis:
Elvis Murray ran the Moreau Funeral Home, embalming and holding funerals in his father's place. His father, Charlie, has been losing his sobriety since his wife's suicide.
While driving to the store one afternoon, Elvis saw a small town beauty queen taking pictures with her family on the side of the road. He looked at her and was attracted to her. Her mother thought Elvis' gaze was creepy, but Annabelle Leigh had a different, strange feeling.
Elvis spends some time making up stories and reading them to his father, who loves his stories but worries about Elvis. He often persuaded his son to go out and date women, find a girlfriend, and have a child of his own, because he couldn't live forever. Elvis just reluctantly agrees, responds in silence, or simply leaves the room.
Dressed and trained by her mother, a former Miss Texas Rose winner, Annabelle is on her way to winning the Miss Texas Rose title. Annabelle has been living under her mother's arrangements and decisions. She is still dissatisfied with her body, and some morbid signs have begun to appear. Annabelle's stepfather, Jimmy, harassed her regularly. She felt very uncomfortable with him, and was only reluctant to have some form of physical contact with him. Once, after Jimmy left the room, she stuck her head out from the balcony and looked into the parking lot below, hiding her suicidal feelings.
She ended up winning the competition, surrounded by other players. At the moment of her victory, Annabelle fell to the ground with heart failure from Eating disorder . Her distraught parents were not shocked by her death, but wanted to bury her in beauty. They found the Moreau funeral home. Elvis apologized to them and went through the funeral process with them.
When receiving Annabelle's body, Elvis recognized her as the Texas Rose contestant, who had watched her triumphs and deaths on TV as he nursed his father to sleep. Inexplicably attracted by her natural beauty, he kisses her and, at the same time, triggers the camera's timer to take a picture of him kissing the corpse. Suddenly, the window was blown open by the wind, he got up to close the window, Annabelle's body bounced, coughed loudly, and regained her breath. Surprised, Elvis checked her pulse to find she was alive and frantically called 911. Annabelle was taken to the hospital, and her miraculous resurrection caused a media frenzy.
Elvis, fearful of being known that he had witnessed Annabelle's resurrection because he did not have a license, had his father tell the media that he saw Annabelle's resurrection. Charlie complied, and Annabelle's story made headlines. Soon, Annabelle's mother was enjoying a high profile life, allowing her daughter to be interviewed by local and national media without asking for advice. Annabelle found herself never being herself. She is haunted by her own rebirth, and has a strange memory of being in the funeral home and having someone lean over her before waking up, unaware that she was seeing Elvis.
Being haunted by her rebirth, she decides to meet Charlie and ask him about her waking up, and when she arrives at the funeral home, Elvis sees her and refuses her to see his father and Where antiseptic surgery is performed. Later that day, she re-entered Elvis' home and lay on the operating table, trying to revive the memories that had been haunting her. Elvis spotted her and nearly mistook her for an aggressor. He told her that this was where she was subjected to surgery and resurrection. After she meets Charlie, Elvis asks her father to tell Annabelle what happened. Annabelle spent the night at his house. The next morning she decides to stay at Elvis' house because she doesn't want to go home to face her family or whatever, she just wants to disappear and Annabelle develops a friendly relationship with Charlie and Elvis. They also have a clear affection for her, but they can't act according to their feelings.
Annabelle asks Charlie about her resurrection, but every time he tells her about it, something changes. She was increasingly puzzled as to why Charlie answered differently each time, and Elvis stopped her from asking his father Charlie about anything. Annabelle, who lives with Elvis and Charlie, spent a day or two painting the "scared" house, and after a day or two, Elvis joined. Annabelle's mother reported her missing when she discovered Annabelle's departure, which made Annabelle's disappearance a lot of attention and made Annabelle very annoyed. She decided to continue living with the Maurys. Annabelle wanted to plant something in the vacant lot near the house, despite Elvis and Charlie's insistence that nothing would grow there. Facing the dry land for a while, she asked Elvis to take her to town, Elvis agreed, she tried her best to keep a low profile in the seed store, not wanting to be recognized, and on leaving, she saw his stepfather and the local sheriff. Unfortunately, her claim to be Charlie's niece caught the salesperson's interest and told the sheriff.
While she was out plowing with a tractor, the sheriff showed up and asked Charlie about the boy in the middle of the grass. Charlie said it was hired by him, the heir to his posthumous job. After the sheriff leaves, Elvis confronts Annabelle and talks about her living with them. He feared that if she was found with them, he and Charlie would both be arrested. Annabelle told him that if he wanted her to leave, he could just say so. But Elvis decided to give up and couldn't imagine Annabel's departure. That night, Charlie told Elvis and Annabelle to leave, and he was willing to let them go together.
Their relationship grows deeper and deeper, and in the evening Annabelle invites Elvis to go for a walk together. They sat on the local bridge and talked about their parents. Elvis told Annabelle that his mother committed suicide when he was 12 years old, on a bridge that bears a striking resemblance to the one they are lying on now. Annabelle also told him that after so many bad things now, she believes that miracles will happen. Annabelle flinched as she lay down to kiss Elvis, and she had a sense of déjà vu from him kissing her "corpse" that night. Elvis was very uncomfortable, but he still concealed his pain and resentment, and Annabelle tried his best to apologize. When they got home, they saw the local police questioning Charlie. Charlie tells the cops a false story and puts them in vain. Charlie Tom Elvis and Annabelle leave, Elvis hesitates but Charlie clears his doubts and convinces him that everything will be alright.
Annabelle and Elvis left, and on South Padre Island, he went to the beach outside his car to relieve himself, before apologizing to Annabelle for his previous grievances and promising to stay with her. After Elvis apologized, his relationship with Annabelle quickly heated up to love.
During this time, Annabelle's mother, distraught over her daughter's disappearance, visited the funeral home and found Annabelle's clothes, a photo book of Elvis's plastered corpses that he had photographed, After a period of excavation, a photo of Elvis kissing her daughter's "corpse" was seen in the trash can. She was so shocked that she called the police and was startled again by Charlie who asked who she was. Instead of answering, she told the police what happened.
The news was in the headlines again when Annabelle saw that photo while she stopped at a gas station. Before Elvis had time to explain, the police arrived at the gas station, arrested him, and returned Annabelle. Elvis was interrogated over allegations such as anything he did to other corpses in his father's morgue. He denied doing anything to the other corpses, but said kissing Annabelle's body was the first.
Annabelle is now annoyed by the media and frustrated with what Elvis may have done to her. Although betrayed, she suddenly realizes that Elvis is the hallucination she often recalls. She went to see him in prison and asked him to tell the truth and tell him what happened when she came back to life. Elvis is so downhearted that Annabelle tells him that she has dropped all lawsuits so he can go home and take care of his father. He asks her why she cares so much about his father, and Annabelle says she thinks Elvis is a good guy who just needs help to find out. He accused her of not actually knowing what happened to him. She replied that when he was hurt, he should learn to step over and learn to forgive, just like she did. As Annabelle was about to leave the cell, Elvis finally told her that he kissed her, the only time he did it, and that he didn't tell her for fear of being in jail forever. He was the one who encountered the moment of her resurrection. Annabelle told him sadly that even if it all happened, it was still sad, he never believed in miracles, or, he was right. She left anyway.
Elvis was released, and he took a taxi home, thinking about Annabelle and Charlie. When he got home and was haunted by the media, he was disgusted. He looked at the golf course he had built for his father and saw a red umbrella swaying on the lawn in the rain. He ran over to find his father lying on the grass, collapsed after a perfect game of golf in the rain. Elvis cried out for help, but his father still went to heaven.
Elvis performed mortuary surgery on Charlie and guarded him in the house. Feeling that his life had no purpose anymore, he decided to hang himself to end his life. Unbeknownst to him, Annabelle also decided to kill herself, electrocuting herself in the bathtub by electrocuting the TV, where she was still watching.
Elvis made a loop, dragged a stool under the loop, stood on the stool and put his head in the noose. When he was about to commit suicide, the window in the attic was blown open by the wind, reminding him of the time before Annabelle was resurrected. He turned his head and saw a field of sunflowers, which Annabelle had planted, and now they were all in full bloom. When he saw this flower field, he accidentally kicked the stool over, he struggled very hard, and finally freed himself from the rope loop, fell to the ground, and took a deep breath.
Annabelle, in another place, immersed herself in the bathtub and watched the television set beside her. She began to slowly move the TV toward the tub with her feet, waiting for it to drop into the water. When the TV was about to fall into the bathtub, she stopped because she had seen Elvis on the news. Elvis is outside the house, painting on the wall, telling Annabelle that he loves her. She got up immediately, got out of the bathtub, got dressed, and went to the sunflower field.
Elvis lay in the middle of the flower field, and she asked him jokingly what he was doing. Elvis replied that he might be waiting for her. Annabelle lay beside him. Elvis told her she was the most beautiful in his life. They were in each other's arms, looking at the clean sky together.
