Professor Albus Dumbledore learns that the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald plans to seize power over the world. Realizing that he cannot stop him alone, Dumbledore asks magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead a team of outstanding wizards and one brave muggle-baker. They are in for incredibly dangerous adventures, encounters with old foes and the taming of new magical creatures, and a fight against Grindelwald's followers, who are growing in number.