Beneath the poisoned hills of Kolar Gold Fields, India, lies a Chola treasury that has slept for a thousand years.

Heritage researcher Rahul Kumar and photojournalist Rani Menon uncover it. So does someone else.

A man from the same streets has spent thirty years preparing for this moment. He believes what the British buried before they left was stolen. He intends to take it back. Whatever it costs.

And in the depths of the mine, something has been waiting for all of them.