The new world 1545...

Vanquished by the Spanish Embire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizactions. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artefact so powerful - so deadly - that it was known through the americans as "the Death Relic".

Yucatan Peninsula, present day...

When Maria Pelati´s research team disappears in Mexico, Jonathon Payne and David Jones embark on a perilous mission to find the missing archeologists. The dou quickly finds a link between the group´s work and its recent dispappearance. Following the clues left behind, they try to solve one of the darkest mysteries of the New World, but their quest for the relic might cost them their lives.