In an archive hidden beneath the New York Public Library the most powerful mysteries and ancient relicts of the world are treasured. As a gang of criminals breaks the security system and steals of one of the most important relicts from the library, the librarian Flynn Carson, an extremely intelligent and well educated young man who is not very experienced in life and still lives with his mother, is forced to go on the adventure of his life, only protected by the beautiful and daring Nicole Noone.