In his house, the man lays and smokes a joint with the woman, beside his marble sculptures. The man says his gallery needs a little more and that a muse should surely be in New Orleans for them to find. Specifically, he says New Orleans is saturated with death in a potentially inspirational way. She jokingly asks if he’ll kill someone. He says, instead, grave-robbing will do the trick. She pushes back, saying it’s illegal and dangerous. He says that it would be a good muse for them both, as she also has been struggling to write lately.

The woman and man’s first adventure is in a family cemetery that they sneak past the fence of until they get to a tomb. They break inside and see two sarcophagi. The first one has nothing in it, but the second one has crates full of wine, which the man opens and takes a swig of. After some convincing, the woman drinks too. From then on, they regularly raid tombs, take things, and truly found their muse: death itself. The woman writes better stories and sells them, but the man doesn’t yet get the boon he needs for his own art.

The man and the woman are headed to the French Quarter to get a tip from a friend for their next adventure. At the Voodoo Museum, the man greets the lady and kisses her on the mouth. Jealous, the woman thinks about how she and the man aren’t officially together. She gives them a tip on the grave of a voodoo priest. The man tells her that this may be the last hunt if all goes well. There, they plunder the tomb of a sorcerer and jokingly ponder if a curse will be unleashed. From the tomb, they lift a silver chain with a heart-shaped bottle. Quickly, the woman takes it and says that it’s wrong for them to take something like this, but the man says he needs it for his work, which hasn’t been doing as well as the woman’s. He says she can’t suddenly back out just because she feels like it, because they’re partners in crime.

After resigning to his argument, the woman goes to a bar, the Revel, with the man, where they listen to music, drink alcohol, and dance together. There, the woman decides that this is the last adventure for her, even if the man continues on with it. Soon enough, a young black woman approaches the two of them and chats up the man. Back and forth, they flirt around the necklace he lifted from the tomb, wondering to each other if it’s a love potion. However, she soon explains that it’s a pendant which holds the essence of another person’s heart. The three of them then leave to go back to the man’s house.

At the man’s house, the man shows the young woman his gallery, and the woman follows behind them. While they make out, they ask for drinks, so the woman goes off to make them. When she returns with them, she finds that the bedroom is closed, with them behind it, so she sits and waits. Eventually, feeling longing for the woman too, she comes in, having drunken already, and gets intimate with the young woman as well.

When the woman wakes up, she sees the young woman presiding over her. She sees some kind of beastly spirit in her eyes, as well as the necklace hanging from her neck. The young woman tells her to go far away and begin her own story. The woman wonders if they’ll see each other again. When the woman gets up, she sees that the man has been erased to dust after the young woman consumed him. On one of his pedestals, his heart sits, and a pool of blood is beneath. On a train, the woman leaves town, with her pen and journal in hand. She thinks of the young woman’s taste.