1941. On an ocean liner en route from New York to Buenos Aires, world chess champion Mirko Čentović faces off against a mysterious player whose incredible skill was honed in a private room at the Hotel Metropole, where the Gestapo subjected him to the ultimate torture—solitude.

'The Chess Player' is a graphic adaptation of Stefan Zweig's final and most famous work, a desperate and merciless denunciation of the barbarity of Nazism.