Kurosaki Ichigo is a 15 year old boy that has an ability to see ghosts/spirits. Because of his ability, he is able to meet a female death god (a.k.a Shinigami) named Kuchiki Rukia. To save his family and friends from unwanted soul-eating spirits (Hollows), Rukia transfers her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. As Rukia takes on a human shell, together they solve mysteries involving spirits and hollows until from the spirit world comes 2 other shinigamis explaining that it is illegal to transfer Shinigami powers to humans and Rukia exceeded the time limit to stay in the human world. After they sentence her death for breaking the laws, Ichigo snaps and swears to everyone he will retrieve Rukia by breaking into the spirit world. [ANN]
The good thing with the filler is that at leaast there's going to be more content in each chapter, and not 15 mins. of recaps, songs and stupid crap at the end...
filler... But it's true theres more content, since with fillers the anime isn't so close to the manga they have to air as little content as possible. At least after the fillers, the manga will be far enough away in the story for the anime to air more actual content.