Ian Somerhalder stars as legendary Venetian trader Marco Polo in this epic miniseries event. Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, he eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan’s court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history.