The story begins in New Orleans in 1942, with black crime kingpin J.D. Walker (David McKnight) shot dead on Bourbon Street. Cut to the present when clean-cut college student Ike (Glynn E. Turman) falls under the malevolent influence of the ghostly gangster. As he begins to exhibit J.D.’s boisterous, violent traits, Ike seeks out a local minister (Louis Gossett, Jr.) to exact his revenge.

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