Valerie Perkins

Every year, on the eve of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, a man returns to the house he shared with his lover who still waits to say goodbye all over again.

The Duncan Family's underground New Orleans casino find itself in a war after a rival boss's brother dies at the casino. The owner Big Shirley fearing for her son's live sends him away, but he makes his away to New York City seek help from the Duncan crime syndicate instead