Hamburg 1863. Professor Otto Lidenbrock told his nephew Axel buying brand new a new book in the Jewish Hevelius's shop, he considered a priceless treasure. This is the "Heims-Kringla" Snorre Turleson, Icelandic author of the twelfth century. But during their conversation about the content of the book, an incident occurs and diverts their words: the appearance of a parchment book that slips and falls to earth. Liedenbrock professor and Axel do not yet know that this is a cryptogram puzzle which will be the starting point of an extraordinary adventure ...