Confrontation ensues when a young doctor discovers that his father, also a doctor, prescribes codeine to the old French Quarter of New Orleans instead of legitimately treating them. As the father grows ill, the son slowly adopts the superstitious and traditional medical methods of the Quarter and begins falling into his father’s ways.

A monstrous girl is helped by her mother to lure people in so that she can eat them. After her mother dies, she must take on the responsibility herself, but is met by another woman who turns the tables on her.