It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Roman gladiator from the age of Domitian, who, due to a highly unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for nineteen centuries before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the north Atlantic.

While running a test drill, the machine accidentally uncovers the frozen body of a man.

Lew is given charge of the body, and he immediately calls Semyon Petrovitch, who is a Soviet scientist.

The blood is pumped from the body, and various treatments are administered until, amazingly, he does come back to life.

Finally, Lew McCardle, who has eight years of Latin, sends for a Catholic nun, who joins him and Petrovitch on their quest to sort out the mysteries of the revived man.