In an era when pirates roamed the Caribbean seas, Governer's daughter Elizabeth Swann (Knightly) is kidnapped by evil pirate Captain Barbossa aboard most feared of all pirate ships The Black Pearl. Elizabeth's childhood friend and admirer Will Turner (Bloom) is forced to team up with rogue pirate Jack Sparrow to save her. Little do Turner and Sparrow know what they're up against as it is slowly revealed that Barbossa and his salty crew are cursed. Forced to exist between living and dead, and only revealing their skeleton forms in the moonlight, the pirates intend to use Elizabeth's blood to break the curse and return them to the world of the living. Determined to save the love of his life Turner is prepared to do anything to thwart the dastardly pirate's plans.