Carl W. Crudup

Literature professor Axel Freed is a gambling addict. When he has lost his money, he borrows from his girlfriend Billie, then his mother Naomi, and finally some criminals that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.

It was a neighborhood just like any other...until one day...seven desperate men on the edge move in...and nothing will ever be the same! A halfway house for men just out of prison opens in a safe middle class neighborhood. The occ...