A young American struggles against his ghostly doppelganger and his own vampirism admist the allures of classic deep-South luxury and ancestral secrets. The brilliant young Quinn Blackwood has been haunted since birth by a spirit knowsn as "Goblin" and trapped within a dream world that spans ancient Athens to present-day New Orleans, a world that keeps him from belonging anywhere else. In order to escape his own vampirism, Quinn seeks out the vampire Lestat.