Cornelius Campbell, publicly known as The Amazing Alduin, is a world-famous magician whose career is in slow decline. The theaters still book him and the crowd still applauds, but each venue is smaller than the last — a reminder of former greatness rather than a sign of returning to it. He will do whatever it takes to recapture that awe. His opportunity arrives when an object of peculiar origins appears at an auction in his hometown of Colorado Springs.