In his London club, Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg's statement that technology may enable traveling around the globe in 80 days as claimed by a publication meets a wager, for £20,000, then an insane fortune, and plans to leave next day. His sickly old butler being unfit, he hastily orders a valet from an agency, but the post is hijacked by the club's just fired dishwasher Passepartout. The latter fears most their first stop, Paris, relieved it's only to catch the train to Italy. Alas, the Commune revolution prevents any connection, and the fraudster meets his brother Gérard, whom he failed to raise after father's death, now a revolutionary aiming to draw them into an attempt on the President's life. Although not amused that his voyage is covered live under her mother's pseudonym Fix by Abigail, the daughter of club member and newspaper owner Bernard Fortescue, he gallantly saves her from the crowd, thus losing his luggage to looters, partially restored on nuns' orders after he gives them cash.
—KGF Vissers