New York City lawyer, Brane is fed up with his life and just about everyone around him including relationships with women including his current girl friend. He has an admitted breakdown that isn't over. Violet Avenue is masked as a sanitarium where he travels to or lives as an alternate residence when he's trying not to come apart. It's a safe place. During a party in upstate New York he meets a femme fatale named Radiance who changes everything. Brane is fascinated, no longer suffering from boredom but she takes him on a trip to the unknown, the occult and the weirdness he never imagined existed. Is any of it real?