The day after Katrina devastates New Orleans, an eclectic group of strangers slowly assembles in The Old Weathervane, a dubious bar on Bourbon Street. A family man whose mind is full of walking dead people; a prostitute going through heroin withdrawal; a church lady with a nameless mortal sin on her conscience; and a caring, desperate doctor who is unwilling to tell anyone what happened to his hospital full of patients. Sally the bartender keeps pouring the drinks, while the student videographer gets all of them on tape for posterity. Looking on and offering the occasional oracular comment is a withered barfly who cannot tell anyone who or what he is. As these survivors come apart in front of each other, we discover that these people are not what they seem – and that none of them is getting out of New Orleans alive.