Egypt 1955Robert travels to film on the Nile - and takes his assistant Miss Henderson and his old friend Isobel Airy with him. They are looking forward to oriental splendor and ancient monuments, but things don't go as First, the filming for and "Nofretete and " is postponed, and then there are murders of archaeologists excavating the tomb of Ramses XI. Quickly, rumors of a curse spread, but Robert is Behind the murders is not a vengeful god-king, but a very earthly culprit. And so he investigates under the hot Theban sun and the watchful eyes of the pharaohs...