Peter Lake (Farrell) is a professional thief, who never suspected that his heart steal beautiful Beverly Penn (Brown Findlay). Their love, however, tends to a tragic finale - because she suffers from a fatal variant of tuberculosis, while Peter waits violent death at the hands of his former mentor, a demonic Pearly'ego Soames (Crowe). Struggling with the passage of time and the forces of darkness, Peter desperately tries to save his beloved, while Pearly doing his best to destroy it. Winner takes all, and the loser - woe! Only a miracle can help Peter. Time will tell if it happens to.