A deck of seventy-eight cards, and the claim that its images can map a person's past and predict their future: that is the subject here, narrated by Christopher Lee. The film traces Tarot back through centuries of divination and esoteric tradition, then works through the deck card by card, from the Fool and the High Priestess to the Emperor and Death, explaining the symbolism attached to each. Readers and practitioners describe how a spread is laid out and interpreted, treating the cards less as fortune-telling props than as prompts for intuition and self-reflection. Lee's narration carries the history and the card-by-card breakdown, and the film also touches on Tarot's footprint outside divination, in art and literature that borrowed its imagery. It stays close to explanation rather than argument: what the cards are, where they came from, and how someone actually reads them.