Gabriel Knight, the owner of a New Orleans, Louisiana bookstore, gets tangled up in the investigation of a series of voodoo-related murders currently plaguing the city.
Shortly after moving to Rittersburg to take over duties as the lone "Schattenjager", Gabriel Knight is called by the townsfolk to investigate the killing of a child believed to be caused by a werewolf.
The investigation of a kidnapping leads Gabriel Knight (Tim Curry) to the French village of Rennes-Le-Chateau where a dark and sinister mystery lies ready to be solved.