In Spike Lee's loving adaptation of Bill Gunn's 1973 Ganja & Hess, well-to-do Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) develops a strong taste for blood after being stabbed with an ancient African dagger by art curator Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), an addiction which he eventually shares with Lafayette's newly widowed wife Ganja (Zaraah Abrahams).