This action-packed story recounts the search for Elizabeth Swann by swashbuckling pirate Captain Jack Sparrow and clever blacksmith Will Turner. The dreaded Captain Barbossa has abducted Will's love of his life, Elizabeth, the governor's daughter. They are unaware that the cunning and fearless Barbossa has a curse on her. A long-forgotten curse has condemned him and his enormous crew to an eternal state of neither life nor death. Unless a blood sacrifice is offered, that is.