Isaac "Ike" Hendrix is a young law student who is married to Christella and works as a taxi-cab driver in New Orleans. While out on a night of fun with Christella and their friends, he participates in a hypnosis act and becomes an unwilling host for the restless spirit of J.D. Walker - a hustler from the 1940s who ran numbers during World War II and managed a black-market meat plant. One night at the plant, J.D. witnessed the murder of his sister, Betty Jo, at the hands of rival gangster Theotis Bliss. J.D. stumbles upon Betty Jo's body and is then shot dead by Theotis.
Ike finds himself gradually being taken over by the sociopathic J.D., even eventually going so far as to adopt his hair and fashion style, mannerisms, and psychotic tendencies, often hurting Christella in the process. Once fully possessed by Walker, Ike commits havoc all over town before making his way to the church where Theotis' younger brother and Betty Jo's widower, Elija, former gangster, now working as a preacher. At the church, he also sees Theotis accompany his brother, as well as Roberta, the daughter of Elija and Betty Jo and J.D.'s niece who is the splitting image of her mother.
J.D. poses as Ike to befriend the Bliss family to be close to them, even seducing Roberta and having sex with his own niece through Ike's body. Meanwhile, Christella's parents have gone to her ex-husband, Carl, a cop who is out for Ike's blood, believing him to simply be a psycho hiding behind a false persona—until he mentions to the Chief that Ike claimed his name was J.D. Walker, a man who was not only real, but also had died over 30 years ago.
After several disturbing encounters, Ike eventually reveals his true identity to Elija and tells him to tell Theotis to meet him at the meat plant where he and Betty Jo were killed. Having left the gangster life behind to pursue faith full time, Elija relays this to Theotis and says that this is God's way of justice; he decides to join Theotis to hopefully free Ike from J.D.'s possession.
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