Neil Parker and Madeleine Short are a young couple traveling to Haiti invited by the landowner, Charles Beaumont, to celebrate their marriage. However, Beaumont is in love with Madeleine and hopes that she will agree to marry him. When being rejected, he goes to the local voodoo sorcerer, Legendre. His plan is for Legendre to turn her into a zombie, to be declared dead and buried, and for Neil to return to the United States to later revive her so she stays with him.