Kip is an intelligent and sensitive boy with a great passion for anthropology, thanks to his mother who is studying the glacier mummy Ötzi, displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano. When a tragic accident changes Kip's life, he has to leave Bolzano and his best friends. On his last days in the city Kip will live an extraordinary experience. When he goes to the museum to say goodbye to the mummy, something magical happens and Ötzi awakens. Kip, with the help from his friends, has to hide Ötzi to save him from an evil woman who is on his tracks. While the mummy will do the experience of the twenty-first century, Kip will learn from him the secrets of the Copper Age.