Meet Light Yagami. A brilliant but bored high school student whose life is changed when he finds the Death Note, A notebook dropped by a rouge Shinigami, or God of Death, Named Ryuk, When Light discovers that any human whose name written in the book dies, He vows to use it's power to rid the world of Evil. But every action has it's consequences, And Light soon finds himself in a life or death battle of wits with the mysterious genius detective called L.Humanity itself becomes the battleground for which form of justice will prevail!
Summary From the Vol 1 DVD.