After the tragic death of his mother, nineteen-year-old Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) moves with his struggling, grieving father and sister to the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Danny is forced to take on various odd jobs after his father loses his job as a pharmacist and falls into a downward spiral.
Because of a schoolyard fight, Danny is denied his high school diploma, which pushes him to drop out and eventually fall into a minor life of petty crime.
However, his innate musical talent and rebellious charisma Charlie Le Grand, who hires Danny to sing at his club, the “King Creole”