Some days you just might be better off dead. At least,
that's what smart-alec Barry Lee decides when yet another
of his get-rich-quick schemes falls short of perfect and
he finds he has only one asset left: his life. Or rather,
the insurance on it. Collecting the benefits of life
insurance, however, involves some painfully ultimate
realities that Barry Lee would sooner avoid. So it is that
Barry and Lola, his beautiful South American wife and
partner in con-artistry, set out to play the globalization
of the insurance industry to their advantage. The story of
their journey to Lola's native Guerrera and their sure-
fire scheme to pull off the perfect con, which begins with
the staging of Barry's spectacular and very public
accidental death, becomes increasingly perilous as he
attempts to negotiate his afterlife in a world he in no
way understands. To his surprise, some of Lola's more
blunt-minded and ham-fisted cousins are figuring that if
the whole family's going to get rich with Barry Lee dead,
he's not dead enough...