During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the magician enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish woman. This film is based on the story of Harry Houdini. Houdini is an internationally renowned escape artist who can incredibly extricate himself from ropes, shackles and handcuffs. he is also an anti-pseudoscience pioneer who magically debunks the so-called "psychic". The film is mainly about his life in England in 1926. Houdini, played by Guy Pierce, falls in love with the Scottish woman played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, who, together with her daughter, witnessed the years of trouble caused by Houdini's mother's death and made a series of efforts to this end.