From the icy peaks of the Himalayas to the narrow streets of Copenhagen, from underground laboratories of the last century to the magnificent halls of the Smithsonian Institution—hints to unravel a great mystery are scattered everywhere: the mystery of the origin of life, encrypted in ancient runes.
And it all begins in a lost Buddhist monastery in Tibet, where people start dying from an unexplained illness. A helicopter carrying doctors flies to the monastery, and at the same time a certain mysterious person heads there—someone who has been ordered to destroy everyone!