However, it is destined to happen that someday the Sharira will be recovered. To ensure that it could be retrieved when such a time came, the Monks turned to a family of acrobats. For hundreds of years this family has trained, passing on the skills required to perform the ultimate leap when the time is at hand.

Today, Yin (Michelle Yeoh) and her brother Tong (Brandon Chang), are the last hiers in this long lineage of acrobats. One day, Eric (Ben Chaplin), a man from Yin’s past shows up with a medallion - the Heart of Dun Huang -the key to unlock the secrets of the Sharira. Together they embark on a treacherous journey, across vast mystic forests, ancient villages and deep into hidden caves, avoiding the deadly traps that protect the Sharira and rediscovering what her ancestors once protected.

Following closely on their trail is Karl (Richard Roxburgh), a merciless, unscrupulous man, the very kind of person from which power was first hidden. -- © Miramax [Less]