Lisbon, Portugal, 1551. King Joao III of Portugal offers the Archduke Maximilian of Austria an amazing wedding gift: an elephant, brought one of the many trading posts that the Portuguese had in India at the time. Salomon (the elephant) and Subhro (his Indian mahout) therefore will travel to Vienna, under escort. The meeting of this fabulous animal with crossed populations path provoke reactions as varied as the astonishment, fear, religious exaltation ...