A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin drugetic Funboy car buff T-Bird and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.