For a thousand years, the monks of an ancient Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas guarded a mysterious and formidable treasure with incredible power that could bring untold disasters to humanity. But it so happens that the treasure is stolen, and the monks are forced to turn to their friend, FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast, for help. Together with his assistant Constance Greene, he begins a search for the stolen item, completely unaware of the terrible truth that the monks hid from him...