A younger artist, imprisoned throughout the trammels of opium dependancy, relives his phantasmagorical courtship with a mysterious Soprano identified solely as Ligeia. Whereas exploring these opium induced recollections, the traces dividing actuality and fantasy, reminiscence and hallucination, start to blur into an indecipherable labyrinth of obsession and despair. Although he's nursed again to well being by a brand new love, the Girl Rowena, the haunting of Ligeia's recollections in addition to the spirits of Azrael and Nehushtan, proceed to plague his thoughts and soul.
