Detained in the dead of night without formal charge, a famed mentalist and showman by the name of Erik Jan Hanussen is arrested on suspicion of fraud.
What followed was to be one of the most baffling court cases in Czechoslovakian history.
On a hot summers' afternoon, on a Lake outside of Berlin, Count Helldorff, a crumbling aristocrat turned SA Nazi thug is drawn into a world of champagne, seduction, and spectacle.
Hanussen, the mysterious clairvoyant, offers him everything he craves—status, escape, power.
It’s the beginning of a dangerous friendship, where every gift comes with a price.