 Before Hitler took his own life in 1945, he hid away a huge amount of pure gold, robbed from the churches and castles of Europe. Hitler saw the gold as a legacy to the next generation of Nazis, whom he hoped, with the aid of the gold, could accomplish in the future what he had failed to do. He entrusted only four of his closest officers with the secret of the whereabouts of the gold. Over the years, these officers passed on the secret to their sons, and they, in their turn, passed it on to theirs. More than 40 year after the war, the grandsons - four people who grew up on different continents and thus have never met - are ready to collect the gold and with it unleash a wave of terrorism with the ultimate goal to bring the Nazi movement back into power. Jim Phelps and his team of agents are however close behind the four grandsons, on a mission to make sure that the old dream of Hitler s will never come true.