Thunder rumbled in the distance and rain fell from the night sky onto the Big Easy, its revelers and the unconscious Paul Rocheport- who was drunk again. This was his miserable life after being forced to murder and giving up control of his life to a gangster named Gregory Reznikov. In New Orleans, he eases the despair of his life with drink, jazz music and with the false love of Miss Violet's House of Pleasures until Resnikov has to leave Earth. Paul awakes to the terrors of outer space on a Tillidian Galaxy Skipper with everything that brought him peace left behind on Earth. Things go from bad to worse when the brothers of an alien beauty he meets on board jettison him into space in an escape pod to die floating forever in space. Instead he meets his true love. But can he save her from the evil he has brought with him and will she forgive him for the Green Death?