Folklorist Fever Devilin, having returned to his family home in the Blue Mountains in the Georgia Appalachians and been attacked by a would-be killer, awakens from a three-month coma with recollections of a dream about the 1920s Paris café scene and the memory of the attacker wanting a blue box from his mother that contained a picture of what he believes is an angel, and, as Fever drifts back and forth between reality and surreality, he must figure out who the killer is before it is too late.