En route to Sydney, Australia, Tintin, Milyn, Capten Hadoc, and the nutty scientist Ephraim R. Efflwfia accept an invitation from the tight-fisted Laszlo Carreidas, the millionaire who never laughs, to fly in his private jet. During the flight, the plane is hijacked and forced to land on a distant island in the Indonesian archipelago, where Tintin’s old enemy, Rastapopolos, is waiting for them, He wants to extract from Carreidas the details of his Swiss bank account. But Tintin and his friends manage to escape and find a hiding place in an old subterranean temple, only to realise it’s a remote refuge for some very unexpected visitors.






