A young performer relives his phantasmagorical courtship with a mysterious Soprano known as Ligeia. While researching these opium the lines dividing fantasy and reality , memory and hallucination, begin to blur into an labyrinth of despair and obsession. Though he is nursed back to health by a brand new love, the Lady Rowena, the haunting of Ligeia's memories in addition to the spirits of Nehushtan and Azrael, continue to plague his soul and mind.