Quiet architect Paul Farrell dreams of painting prehistoric cave walls and walking the Silk Road in times past. He’s also wanted for four murders in Paris, and Interpol Inspector Ballard and his partner are on the case. Farrell walks off a plane at JFK and into a hail of police gunfire and is pronounced dead on arrival. His death seems to tie up all the loose ends for NYPD detective Charlie Rains, but then the body is stolen by paleoanthropologist Alan Kedward.

Ballard and Rains are back on the case, more and more convinced that Farrell is somehow still alive. They follow the trail left by Kedward and quickly realize that he’s more than a simple history professor. A sinister figure called the Inquisitor has also taken an interest in finding the fugitives – and the secrets they carry in their souls...