It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis.
A man enters an antiques shop and buys a mummified foot which supposedly belonged to an Egyptian princess, Hermonthis.
The princess steals him away to Egypt where he meets her father and several other ancient pharaohs.
Hermonthis' father, Xixouthros, is appropriately pleased that his daughter's foot is returned to the rest of her.
The protagonist is abruptly woken from this potential dream by the arrival of a friend.