A Hollywood company travels into Africa to make a Tarzan-like jungle film, bringing trucks, cameras, actors and studio assumptions into terrain they do not understand. The expedition encounters violence and a bizarre hidden society, while a look-alike named Stanley Obroski complicates Tarzan’s identity.
The expedition reflects the international film culture of the 1930s, with cameras, vehicles, actors and studio ambition transported into the African interior. Burroughs uses the film crew both for adventure and satire, contrasting Hollywood's manufactured jungle heroics with Tarzan's very real struggle against danger, deception and a strange hidden society.
