​The King of Uruk is too wild for the Gods to tolerate, so they give him a counterpart in a feral man, but when he dies, the distraught king, concerned with his own mortality, goes in search of a way to gain eternal life.
In post WWII New Guinea, Captain George Adams is appointed District Officer to keep the peace among a native population plagued by outlaws who are waging their own campaign against foreign rule.
​Two ministers of an Indian kingdom, one in favor of the disposed king, the other in favor of his usurper, battle it out in a game of wills and manipulations to attain power in the political vacuum created by the removal of the oppressive ruling family.