1955 New York. Private detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) accepts a lucrative assignment from the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro). His mission is to find the long-missing singer Johnny Favorite. The investigation leads him to New Orleans, into the heart of occult rituals, the sweltering heat of a sultry summer, and the world of black jazz and smoky dive bars. Pursued by visions, nightmares, and a thick slew of corpses, Angel will finally arrive at the terrifying truth—and the viewer will arrive at an unforgettable finale and one of the most iconic plot twists in the history of cinema, not just horror.