Melpomene Aguilar, a young and slightly insane vampire living in a metropolis, knows she's crazy. Her creator handed it down, and she was crazy to start with. That begins to change when she meets a young human, two centuries later, and discovers in herself a desperate desire to be human again. The road she sets out on brings her to Ezion-Geber, a mystical place in the East where salvation is said to be found. That road carries her to the discovery of her salvation - and her own downfall.