When an unknown caller leaves Roland Longville a tantalizing clue that child killer Samson Fain has resurfaced in storm-ravaged New Orleans, Roland teams up once again with Detective Amos "Cold-Case" Tiller to hunt down Fain and rescue a teenaged girl who's disappeared. Along the way, they meet a strange man who seems to know more about their case than he's telling; a stripper who dances wearing nothing but her twin pythons—and an insane old woman who runs a decrepit not-so-funhouse in the swamps. Roland and Tiller fight to stay alive in a nightmarish world, where nothing is as it seems.