Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) accepts an invitation to investigate a forty year old unsolved murder by Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile, tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), hired to investigate Blomkvist, discovers the truth behind his fall from grace. Thrown together by fate, the duo tap into a vein of unfathomable iniqui..