From an old book escaped a parchment covered with strange characters. A capricious and eccentric scholar, Professor Lidenbrock succeeded in deciphering the mysterious text, the work of a 16th-century alchemist. He then discovered a curious message: an invitation to go to the center of the earth! The scholar immediately organized an expedition and, a month later, accompanied by his nephew Axel and an Icelandic guide, he engulfed in the bowels of the earth...
There, at the bottom of a volcano, the two explorers and their guide sink into the mysterious entrails of the globe. A journey of mad audacity, a real challenge to science.