Plot Synopsis

13th Century Venetian trader Marco Polo is assigned to accompany two priest on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity. He is soon abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country, where he is accepted as an envoy to Khan's court, eventually becoming a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.