A new artist, imprisoned within the trammels of opium addiction, relives his courtship having a Soprano. The lines dividing fantasy and reality , memory and hallucination, begin to blur in an indecipherable labyrinth of obsession and despair while exploring these opium sparked memories. Though he is nursed back to health by way of a new love, '' the haunting of Ligeia's memories in addition to the spirits of Nehushtan and Azrael, the Lady Rowena, continue to plague his mind and soul.