Long ago, a room in a small-town inn was the site of a gruesome double murder. Decades later, with the town terrorized once again by bloody ritual killings, a mysterious woman suffers bizarre flashbacks related to the slayings.

A girl is drugged and assaulted by her boyfriend before taking her own life. Determined to seek revenge, her best friend hunts down those responsible.

Trip is an aspiring trumpet player with one foot in the streets and the other in his music. A lifetime of poor decisions has placed him between the police and mysterious figure Mississippi Black in his pursuit of stardom in 1945. He soon finds things are not always what they seem.