When Denny Mclaren is called to the scene of the crime of an apparent homicide, he finds a book bound in human flesh which has the name of the victim and others who has died before him. Denny takes the book as evidence until his name is written in the book. Denny puts everything together to discover that the book he has is the Necronomicon.

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.