Hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a rarer-than-rare copy of Aristide Torchia’s 17th-century tome The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, purported to allow its owner to summon the Devil, New York–based antiquarian book dealer Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) sets off for Europe—and soon finds himself contending with cutthroat cults, suspicious suicides, and a most beguiling Emmanuelle Seigner.
