John Constantine is a working-class magician, occult detective and a golden-tongued con man. When he discovers he's dying of lung cancer, he begins recruiting people with grievances from his past in a bid to make amends, while seeking the book of Life and Death. Constantine's team soon discovers Dr. Jeremy Woodrue aka The Floronic Man is also after the books, who has his own team of supervillains consisting of Enchantress and Klarion, who want to use the books to resurrect a dangerous deity known as Gugalanna, a deity from heaven that is described as a one-man rapture that can collapse civilizations.
