Addie LaRue makes a pact with the devil, trading her soul for immortality but the price to pay is being forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her home in 18th-century France and takes a journey across the world, learning to live a life where no-one remembers her, existing only as a muse for artists through history. Until one day, in a second-hand Manhattan bookshop, Addie meets someone who remembers her.