Egon Limbach and Roman Forster, two art dealers, are offered ten million dollars by Spencer Davis, a collector, to steal an Egyptian mummy. Since the sarcophagus alone represents an interesting sale, the two men decide to make a copy. And to play the role of a second mummy, the two individuals decide to recruit via a classified ad the ideal pigeon, which they plan to kill and make up according to Egyptian ancestral rites.
