When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague and seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God.
A mysterious proprietor named Leland Gaunt, the owner of a newly opened store called Needful Things, proves to be more than he appears when his seemingly innocent transactions with his clients begin to lead to deadly, Satanic mayhem.
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.