Follow Jean-Pierre Burneau in his quest to discover a dead man's mystery of the beautiful opal stone that he is intrusted with before the man dies. As he travels from Quebec in 1811, five years after Lewis and Clark's expedition, he crosses the unknown wilderness of the States with only a mute boy and a dog to help him. With Owyhee fur traders chasing after him to steal the prized opal, he endures Indians and hardships of nature. What causes him to search for the connection of the opal with a snake, a bluebird?