A Cajun melody can be heard in the distance, slicing through the muggy night air, the melancholy clarion call of Louisiana’s remote marshland. This is bayou country, where isolated clans intone an inscrutable dialect; where warm rain provides a constant I.V. drip; where drum, fiddle, and accordion rise from the swampland like lost souls in the misty twilight.
The Cajuns slip in and out of waterways, skimming the water’s surface in their carved-out cypress boats, filling wooden buckets with crawfish, and going ashore to trap for nutria and muskrat. They are as much a part of the landscape as the milkweed, the pelican, and the green water snake. But something has come to disturb this evergreen paradise, something as old as the prehistoric gators prowling its bottomless bogs, something as black as the water’s murky depths.
A monster of a man, Colin Cyrus, a convicted murderer and rapist, is a prophet gone mad. He is a foot soldier of evil who speaks of the inevitable reckoning he will leave in his bloody wake. When he encounters the Creole woman Cora Lee Baptiste and her husband, Leon, in their bayou cabin, he unleashes a savageness that is the beginning of prolific and unprecedented supernatural events in the “Big Easy”.
Detective Raleigh Spencer of the Fifth District, through guilt and compassion, becomes the unrelenting protector of Cora Lee and commits his life to ridding New Orleans of a crippling deluge of evil that has overtaken his beloved city.
His quest is not an easy one and the faith of many are brought into question as they face their own spiritual malaise. In the end though, Cora Lee never loses faith, and Detective Raleigh Spencer shows his own mettle as he does battle with his most formidable foe ever --- Satan.
As for the bayou, its Cajun inhabitants go on as they always have, skimming the murky waterways in their cypress boats and filling the night air with their haunting melodies.
