Amber and chaos are the only real worlds in the entire universe. Their confrontation is an eternal struggle between the forces of order and chaos. After being initiated through a maze or Logrus, members of the Amber royal family and the courts of chaos can freely travel through the shadows — reflections of the main worlds, as well as manipulate reality. In the private Shadow Earth hospital, a man named Carl Corey is recovering from a car accident. Having lost his memory, he does not even realize that he is actually one of the nine princes of Amber — Corwin. The man runs away from the hospital. He manages to find his sister, and then his brother, find a strange deck of tarot cards that depict himself, and then go through the Maze... Remembering who he really is, Corwin seeks Amber's Crown. But he does not yet know that evil forces are gathering against the kingdom...