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.