Four stage magicians, J. Daniel "Danny" Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, and Jack Wilder, are each given a tarot card that lead them to the same empty New York City apartment, where they find information from an unknown benefactor. A year later, the four perform their first major performance as the Four Horsemen in an elaborate Las Vegas show funded by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. Their final trick appears to transport one of the audience members to the vault of his bank, the Crédit Républicain in Paris, where stacks of new euro bills are stored. At the magicians' commands, the fans in the vault activate, drawing the bills into the vents and then showering the Las Vegas crowd with them. The euros are shown to be real, and the vault in Paris is found to be empty of its recent shipment of euros. But what happens five years after, when these magicians have disappeared off the map and have been supposedly looking for new editions to their horsemen? What happens when they put the magicians they find against each other in an all out magic battle?