His personal journey changed the European understanding of the world forever. This is the absorbing true story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo's arduous trek to the East - and beyond.

From religion to war to culture, everything Marco believes about his world is challenged and proven wrong. So too are his rigid notions of Kublai Khan who accepts Marco as an attache of his court, where he advances as a Mongol dignitary, shares in the forbidden love of a Persian princess and in a historically important and unprecedented move, chronicles his life over the next twenty years, marooned on the far stilt of the world.