A New Orleans police detective, despondent after his wife is found murdered in the bed of another man, must stop a rash of grisly killings that witnesses claim are being committed by the dead. 

SYNOPSIS:

A few months ago, New Orleans PD Detective Tony Gandolfi had it all – a loving wife, an ascending career, a hero to crime victims. Then his wife was found murdered in the bed of another man, and it all went to hell. He can’t concentrate. His cases are suffering. He’s at the lowest point of his life. That’s when his wife shows up again, as a spirit who begins to visit him at night but refuses to speak or answer his questions.

It doesn’t help when the planned peaceful takedown of a violent gang leader turns into a running gun battle, leaving both the target and an innocent street kid, a gutter punk, dead.

A few days later, the gutter punk’s girlfriend demands an explanation from Gandolfi. It seems she spotted him on the street, looking strange but very much alive. Things get weirder when the dead gang leader is identified as the perpetrator in the grisly, ritualistic killing of two of his own gang, and then Sienna’s dead gutter punk boyfriend the perpetrator in another. Thus begins a rash of grisly, ritualistic killings, leading to talk about a growing army of the dead wreaking havoc in the city’s wards.

Gandolfi tries to play down the supernatural aspects of the killings in his reports, but there’s no denying the eyewitness accounts and evidence of voodoo ritual at the crime scenes. His NOPD commander comes down hard on him and assigns Haitian émigré Det. Darly Poux to assist him.

Poux believes a bokor, a voodoo witch doctor, is involved. Evidence soon leads them to a Haitian emigre, the father of a young girl who had been killed in a gang crossfire. Now he seeks a terrible vengeance on those he believes responsible for her death.

In a climatic encounter on Halloween night that leaves Gandolfi and Poux faced off against the bokor and his army of the dead, Gandolfi shows the bokor that he has become the monster – a killer of children.

It’s now Nov. 1, the Feast of All Saints. Gandolfi has come to recognize his own responsibility for the deterioration of his marriage and apologizes to the spirit of his wife, and for the first time, she acknowledges him and the love they once shared.