World renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to q Swiss research research facility to analyze cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discoveres is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic church by a centuries old underground ordanisation, the illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a deadly timebomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with a beautiful and myserious scientist Vittoria Veira. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through scaled crypts, dangerous catacombs, desrted cathdrals and the most secretive vault on earth... the long forgotten illuminati lair.