A young man (Tommy Sweeney) who's depressed about his failed suicide attempt, winds up going to a friends party anyway. Although his friends seem insensitive about his plight, he meets a model who sheds a different light on death...

A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.