A struggling magician who has much ambition, little skill, homicidal history, rude attitude and will do anything to succeed, is invited to view an act. He murders that magician and steals his act. After Myles Federman (Billy Zane) made his magician mentor "disappear," he hoped that he could make the act his own. But he should have mastered the tricks of the trade first, because how he can't get his act together. Myles learns the hard way that in the world of black magic, a good magician never gives away all his secrets.