On her way to New Orleans, Lilah--a young widow--suffers more misery than she can stand when a man falls into her van. The man drops a suitcase that Lilah accidentally opens but doesn’t understand the contents. Curious, she heeds the advice of a graveyard psychic. The psychic gives her a crystal necklace and tells her to find a secret diary. In searching for the diary, Lilah gets intimate with a handsome musician and dangerously close to murder.