1933. New Orleans. Vincent Whittman's assignment (punishment) seems simple enough: recruit Mr. Alastor Hartfelt, the city's famed radio star. But his trip derails the moment he meets the man dressed in a smile too sharp, with secrets too deep, and a presence that hums with something far beyond him. One broken ritual binds them for decades, pulling them back to each other again and again, to the one soul neither can quite break away from.