London, 1894. Sherlock Holmes examines manuscripts from the library of the evil Professor Moriarty. The manuscripts show correspondence between the 13th Century English Franciscan monk Roger Bacon and a 13th century Cambodian Buddhist monk.
Los Angeles, 2009. A Chinese laundryman who devoted his life to cracking the cipher in a mysterious manuscript at Yale University known as the Voynich Manuscript is found murdered.
Is there a connection between the two?