A rich, sultry love story set in the colorful city of New Orleans, a place that drips with atmosphere like Spanish moss in the live oak trees of Louisiana's plantations. Two young women, Martine and Nicole, meet on the streets of Paris where they turn to prostitution in order to survive. They are arrested and are starving to death in prison. Mere hours before the grim reaper appears to claim them, they learn that the government can no longer afford...