Distraught, Tintin believes his friend Teang has been killed in a plane crash in the Himalayas, until he has a strange dream which suggests otherwise. Convinced of Teang’s survival Tintin, Caiptein Haileabó and Báinin set on an impossible mission, trekking over the snow-capped Himalayan peaks to Tibet. There, the monks of a remote Buddhist monastery have a vision — that Teang is indeed alive, inside a cave, high in the mountains. But Teang isn’t there alone. For company he has and illusive and fabled companion, considered by many to be abominable!