Exasperated by the perils of car-living, Steve moves into a rooming house where he meets an aging jazz singer who was once Steve's favourite musician. A skeptical Steve agrees to help the musician reclaim her soul from the man she says she sold it to, who promised her "the blues skills of Robert Johnson" in exchange and delivered what appears to be a raw deal. While trying to prove to this woman that she never actually sold her soul, Steve is arrested for a break and enter.