Set in India, circa 1890, the continued adventures of a young boy, Mowgli, stumbling into the human world and being pursued as the next curiosity for the P.T. Barnum circus. Barnum scout Harrison enlists grandee Buldeo to help track Mowgli down. But while Harrison's host seems affable, in fact he harbors malice: The boy is likely to be his nephew, the sole legal block to Buldeo's gaining control of his late brother's fabulous state.