CERN Institute, Switzerland: world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered s mysterious symbolom, ktorý sa nachádza na jeho hrudi. The Vatican, Rome: College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, ununtopable bômb terifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. V breathtaking race proti času, Harvard profesor Robert Langdon musí decipher a labyrinthine trail starovekých symbolov, ak je to defeat those responsible - Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct pre najbližšie štyri šiestich rokov, reborn to hated enemy, the Catholic Church.