Boxer Marty Strauss is released from prison and becomes the bodyguard of mysterious tycoon Joseph Whitehead. An unlucky player, Strauss thinks that his bet played in the end and now life will go well, but he does not know one thing: the new boss Marty owes all his fortune and power to the game of cards played in Warsaw destroyed by the Germans, in which he put his own soul on the line. And now he must repay the debt, and the one who came for Whitehead has a truly sinister power: he is able to raise the dead and will stop at nothing. Caught between two lights, between the flames of the underworld and the wrath of one of Europe's richest men, Strauss embarks on one last desperate game of survival, yet to realise the nightmares it will lead him to.