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.