The film is a story about supernaturally beautiful raccoon pelts (called "pine lights") that cause anyone who seeks to profit by them to commit horrendous acts.

One of his suppliers, Jeb Jameson and his son, go onto private land owned by an old woman known as "Mother Mater," to trap animals.

However, after Jameson goes to bed, his son Larry becomes mesmerized by the hanging furs, then pulls out the baseball bat and beats his father to death.

Mother Mater states the reason she warns people off her land is because the raccoons have taken up guardianship of the lost city's ruins on them.

The seamstress, Sue Chin Yao, sews her nose, eyes and mouth shut after finishing the coat, then suffocates.

The story can be seen as a dark satire on the fur industry; the means of the victims' deaths all being based on what the furriers do to the raccoons.