Ashe, the young man who emerges from the night of his own horrific murder with the mysterious powers of the Crow, returns to seek out and destroy the most savage criminals in a surrealistic city of preponderant evil. As he sets out on his fateful mission, Ashe becomes drawn to Sarah, some-one with whom he seems to share psychic and emotional bonds.

Sarah is the young woman who as a young teenager first encountered The Crow and cannot escape this connection with her past.