Millennial magazine's financial journalist Mikel Bloomkwest (Daniel Craig) is in the middle of a defamation lawsuit caused by a report when he unexpectedly receives an invitation from Henry Van Yère (Christopher Plummer), the founder of Van Yères Industrial Group, Sweden's top family-owned company. Ostensibly trying to write a biography of the other party, Mikel is actually helping Dickey investigate an unsolved murder case that happened in the family 40 years ago. Mikel combed through the mountains of information and talked to family members. But at a critical moment, a marginal girl Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) hacked into the computer and stole information. He finds Lise, who also has extraordinary investigative abilities, and invites her to investigate with him, only to find that there is a bottomless black hole of desire in front of him......
The film is based on the original book by Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson.