When a young boy, Jahan, arrives with a gift for the Sultan
– a white elephant called Chota – the pair are sent to the palace’s menagerie.
There they learn to guard against the scheming of animal tamers, gypsies,
deceitful courtiers and the mischievous Princess Mihrimah.
Welcomed into this foreign land, Jahan and Chota travel to
the furthest corners of the Sultan’s kingdom – and to war. But one day when
Jahan meets the royal architect, Sinan, he is given the chance to rise in
court. To accept is to enter the marble halls walked by Princess Mihrimah,
where the treacherous also plot – a tru place of wonders and dangers.
