The leader of the US immigrant colony is a fake caliph and trafficker of stolen goods. His snatcher, a student, steals the university's 400-year old architect's scale model used to build Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The fence kingpin can't sell the million-dollar showpiece because the PI's phony buyers thwart his efforts. His lover leaves him, alone with the cursed treasure, setting him up to be captured for possessing contraband.