Dirk Bannerman is leading a simple life in an isolated South American town, living day-to-day while hoping for better things. Things get interesting when he meets Theophilus Chalmers, a self-professed scientist and explorer in search of a subterranean lost world. Chalmers has a proposition that intrigues the young American; he needs someone to guide his granddaughter to a nearby research site and begin the search in earnest....a simple task that will...