Lestat, the creator of Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia, the two protagonists of Wywiad z wampirem, tells his own story. Awakening after fifty-five years, he becomes a rock star. Yet his history is long and dark, reaching back to the eighteenth century. At that time he was an author in Paris; he became a vampire and travelled across Europe in search of answers to the questions that tormented him. When he finally found the first vampires, the hunter became the hunted.