A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.
Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in New Orleans in the early 1900s, Louis de Pointe du Lac finds it impossible to resist rakish Frenchman Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement.
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac continues the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy- his time in Post War Paris with the Vampire Claudia. In Dubai, Molloy discovers the truths beneath Louis' story.