The multi-part project is based on the cult novel by Anne Rice. It tells the legendary story of Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, and Claudia, and their passionate love, bloodshed, and the dangers that immortality holds. A vampire approaches a sensation-seeking journalist, deciding to tell his story, which began in 1791 when farmer Louis, after losing his beloved and child, wanted to end his life but instead "was reborn in a different form."