During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army under General Tomoyuki Yamashita looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its occupied colonies in Southeast Asia. Many believed the famed Yamashita's Gold had been lost forever when the war ended.
Decades later, a group of foreign workers digging a tunnel under the Padang in Singapore stumble across one such vault and they inadvertently trigger a biological booby trap.
An unknown strain of anthrax is released threatening a global holocaust. It is up to a special team of investigators to decipher a cryptic clue left behind to halt this deadly pandemic.