 Seymour Krelborn, a poor, geeky young man, works in Mushnik s Flower Shop on Skid Row, which rarely gets customers. He s in love with Audrey, who also works at the flower shop, but she already has a boyfriend, sleazy sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello, DDS. One day, Seymour finds a bizarre plant that he calls Audrey II. It attracts business, but when trying to figure out how to nurture it, Seymour discovers it eats blood. He keeps it alive, feeding it his own blood, and by the time it s big enough and mature enough to speak, move, and sing, Audrey II persuades Seymour to kill, bribing him with fame, money, possessions, and the love of Audrey. It turns out that the plant isn t just hungry and mean, it came from outer space on a mission to take over the world.