Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author and performer who provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. This is a mesmerizing journey into the world of modern magic and a look at those who have mastered it.

An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...