A run-in with a secretive fraternity during the Malayan Emergency forces Wildan Caspian, a news photographer, to go underground. Chaos reigns when he stumbles upon a trail that leads him to a conspiracy-strewn world of neocolonialists, tribesmen, godmen and imperialist oddballs—all racing to find a lost sceptre. Wildan joins the race with a bumbling friend, a local rascal and an effervescent bandit.