Tulip

Central Asia, 1880's. A botanist stumbles across the rarest of tulip flowers growing in a shaman's garden. She's willing to sell him a bundle of tulip bulbs but first he must eat one, then make love to her (the side effects are supernatural, but useful). After arriving in Holland, the valuable bundle goes missing. Convinced a poor, crippled dock worker is the thief the botanist goes in hot pursuit. But when he fails to return, his son asks the local constable to investigate. When the consta...