Desiree is the taken up female child of Monsieur and Madame Valmonde, who are rich Creoles in Louisiana. As a baby, she was found out by Monsieur Valmonde lying in the shaded of a pebble pillar beside the Valmonde gateway. She is attracted by another rich scion of a Creole family, Armand. They emerge very dedicated to one another and finally have a child. The persons who glimpse the baby get a sense that certain thing is odd about it. Eventually they recognize that the baby's skin ...