After some time in jail, rugged English architect Arthur returns to Italy in search of a gate to the underworld as he hopes to reunite with his late lover. Arthur finds himself tangled up with a ragtag crew of grave robbers, who keep him close as he wields a secret ability to locate Etruscan graves buried deep underground. In a perpetual state of limbo, Arthur straddles reality and the great beyond, chasing a chimera to hunt for something deeper in the here and now.