Dean Corso (Depp) is a rare book dealer hired by the wealthy and eccentric Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to find all the copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a centuries-old book ...

Hired by zealous occult scholar Boris Balkan to verify the authenticity of his most prized possession, unscrupulous New York City rare-book dealer Dean Corso is unaware that his life is in grave ...