Victorian era, foggy streets of London. An airship floats in the dim sky: a skeleton in a decayed frock coat stands at its helm, and something amazing, perhaps precious, is hidden in the gondola. But what? Hunting for the solution to the mystery of the aircraft are members of the Royal Academy of Sciences, a selfish preacher of Armageddon, a savage vivisector with a crazed henchman, a conscienceless millionaire and... a motley group of champions of truth, led by the scientist-inventor Langdon St. Ives. Can the mysterious “creature from the bottle” ", who arrived on Earth in time immemorial, to protect himself from the predatory clutches of villains?