Searching for Sal

the long version

Sal Magestro and Nate Zavoral are the best of friends, but they argue incessantly about religion and the plausibility of life after death. A staunch Catholic and the gregarious owner of a pizzeria in Madison, Wis., Sal is so convinced deceased humans can influence the lives of loved ones they've left behind that he concocts a scheme to prove once and for all the existence of a hereafter. Nate, a school teacher and unabashed agnostic, finds the idea pure folly. Nonetheless, he signs an oath that stipulates how Sal will signal Nate, or vice versa, upon his death. Several years later, Sal dies unexpectedly, and shortly after Nate and three golf buddies witness a shocking, seemingly supernatural phenomena that they agree might be Sal's signal.