An orphan child goes about the streets of Lahore. He is not of Indian nationality, for his parents were English, and his father was a sergeant in the army. However, young Kim, speaks and thinks as though he was Indian, and this could have continued day after day, had he not encountered a Monk who had come down from the Tibetan mountains in search of a purifying river. Kim, fascinated by the monk’s appearance, wasted no time in setting out after him… yet the past tends to repeat itself, such that during their voyage, they run into an English regiment that, as chance would have it, was the exact same one to which his father had once belonged. Kim has no choice at this point, for once he is recognized as English, he is forced to go to school and join the British Secret Service...