Members Only is a post-mortem philosphical comedy. Eric, upon finding himself a victim of a mystery shooting and in heaven -- but without the requisite membership -- obtains from the black market a stolen pass and enters the afterlife as Carmine Craxxi, a recently deceased mafia boss who bribed the Pope to ensure St Peter looked the other way when he arrived.

Eric is flattered by the 'respect' everyone shows him, and soon warms to the prospect of life on the Other Side. Things take His fortune takes a turn, however, when a bomb rips through his hotel room while he is, thankfully, steadily becoming drunk in the bar downstairs. The following morning, sober and fully informed of the previous night's events, he finds out exactly who Carmine Craxxi was. Horrified at being in so far over his head and aware that he is a marked man he is determined to lay low and slip away quietly.

Carmine Craxxi's enemies have other ideas, though, and Eric finds himself kidnapped -- having to think more quickly than he is accustomed just to survive. He meets God -- getting to ask Him all the questions we would all like to -- falls in love with a dark and mysterious young girl who can read him as well as she would a bus timetable and, having glimpsed eternity and been made aware of his place -- and creative role -- in it, he faces the greatest challenge of his death.

He receives help from a most unlikely of sources: the real Carmine Craxxi who, unable to enter heaven and torn by rage at having been cheated, finds solace in the home of an old, Chinese sage, who unties the knots his mind is in and shows him the way to heaven.

The story comes full circle, with Eric having to die so that he may live, to let go so that he may grasp what had always eluded him, but does he have the courage to make that choice?