Jodie Welch's life is turned upside down after she loudly and drunkenly declares to her friends in a bar that she wishes her husband, Brian, would drop dead - and then finds her wish granted shortly after getting home. In a panic, she realises that her husband's accidental death will now look anything but, so she enlists her friends' help to remove his body and bury it in an empty field, thus removing all evidence of his death.