Set in a gritty, real life New York City, alcoholic Sam meets up with a modern day succubus who marks him and controls his will. As his world unravels he slowly figures out what is happening and has to figure out what to do.
It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.—<[email protected]>
It's Halloween in New York, but it's not quite Sam's [Larry Fessenden] day. His fatherhas recently died, he's just broken up with his girlfriend Liza [Heather Woodbury], and hegets robbed on the subway. Already drunk, he goes to a Halloween party atthe apartment of friends Nick [Aaron Beall] and Rae [Patricia Coleman] and there meets Anna [Meredith Snaider]. Anna walkshome with him, but, when Sam has to dash back to Nick and Rae's apartmentbecause he took the wrong coat, Anna disappears.
Several nights and a lot of beers later, Sam runs into Anna at afestival. They go for a ride on the ferris wheel, and Anna jerks him offin Battery Park and bites his lip in the heat of passion. Sam wakes up thenext morning, lying alone in the grass and Anna is gone. That night, Samhas to stand in for Lenny, who works as a waiter at the restaurant thatSam manages. Lenny has been seeing some chick on a boat and has suddenlydisappeared. Everyone figures he's just run off. After the restaurantcloses, Sam goes outside to find Anna waiting for him. They go out todinner (Anna isn't hungry, but Sam wolfs down a big red hamburger), andthen they go back to Sam's apartment, Anna making a point of being invitedin.
Sam and Anna are becoming an item. One night, while Sam is choppinggarlic for dinner, Anna drops by. She can't stand the smell in the houseso they go up on the roof to have sex. When Sam wakes up, Anna is gone.Sam meets Liza for coffee. He tells Liza about Anna, and Liza is visablyshaken. In the middle of their conversation, Sam feels sick and goes tothe bathroom. He doesn't return until Liza is gone.
It is the funeral for Sam's father, and Sam is giving the eulogy.Afterwards, the mourners adjourn for a few drinks, and Anna suddenly showsup. Sam and Anna go walking in Central Park, and they are chased bywolves. Anna raises her hand to the wolves, and they cease the chase. WhenSam and Anna come out of the park, they come upon an accident in which asmall boy is injured. Anna picks him up and carries him to the emergencyroom. Afterwards, Sam and Anna find a storage closet, where Anna bites hisarm while they're having sex.
Sam is feeling "drained" and looking forward to spending Thanksgivingwith Nick and Rae at Rae's grandmother's house on the beach. But rest isnot to be his. Sam's first night there, Anna comes to him in his sleep.The next day is Thanksgiving, and Anna joins them for dinner but doesn'teat anything. ("Cramps," she says.) Sam eats his dinner but barfs it up.After dinner, while Sam and Nick drink shots, Rae and Anna go for a walk.Anna comes on to Rae and is just about to bite her neck, when Rae backsoff. The next day, the three of them (Nick, Rae, and Sam) return to thecity.
Sam is losing it fast. He tries to speak to Liza, but she blames iton his drinking. Anna accuses him of pining for Liza, and they break up.Sam attempts to talk with Nick about Anna, describing how she is like aparasite. Every time they make love, she bites him and sucks up the blood.He's never seen her eat or drink; neither has he ever seen her in thedaytime.
Nick laughs, and tells Sam he has a real propensity for Gothicmelodrama. "Vampirism is everywhere," Nick lectures. "It is hiding in ourhearts. It is at the bottom of a bottle or a needle in the arm. It is 500channels of insipid cultural drivel, the advertizing and gluttony drainingus of our ability to think. But believe me, it is not to be found embodiedin Anna. She probably belongs to one of those bloodsucking cults, but sheis not a vampire!" Nick goes on to tell Sam to lay off the booze, pullhimself together, and get an AIDS test. Then he invites Sam out for drink,but Sam refuses.
When Sam finds his cat slain, he runs to Liza's apartment. When Lizadoesn't answer her door, Sam lets himself in and finds Liza in the samecondition as his cat. Realizing that he is in big trouble, Sam tries tohelp himself. He buys a bag of garlic and smears it on his windows. Hebuys a package of beefsteaks and drinks the blood. He calls Nick for helpand, when Nick comes to the door, Sam opens it...only to find Annastanding there, teeth bared.
Sam locks himself in the bathroom and pulls out the rod from a towelrack. While Anna pretends to take a phone call from Liza, Sam cautiouslyopens the bathroom door to find Anna again standing there with her teethbared. She knocks him down and bites him in the neck. Then she screws himwhile drinking his blood. Sam reaches for the towel rod, hits her with it,then locks himself in the bedroom and passes out on the bed.
While Nick and Rae make their way to Sam's door, Anna comes inthrough the bedroom window (on the fifth floor!) and leaps on top of Sam.She offers him a taste of her blood, but Sam refuses and tries to escapethrough the window. Anna tries to pull him back in. Just as Nick breaks inthe bedroom door, Sam and Anna plunge to the ground below. Nick and Raerun outside to where Sam and Anna lay dead on the cement. Moments later,Anna's body disappears. A short while later, a boat leaves the harbor.[Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
