While in Africa, a man receives the idol Mala-Tor as a gift from locals he helped. Mala-Tor has the ability to guide the man to riches. A robber steals Mala-Tor then buries it, intending to retrieve it later, but when he comes back for it a nearby tree comes to life and attacks him. The old man stops Mala-Tor from killing the burglar and reclaims his idol.