A shady 1950s private eye is hired by a mysterious stranger to find a missing singer with a debt to pay. The detective's search for the musician leads him into dark and disturbing territory, as everybody who helps him meets a grisly fate soon afterwards. However, the truth is far more shocking than he ever expected. Supernatural thriller, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet and Charlotte Rampling.

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.