Time and circumstances separated Gabe and Jesse for ten years, unable to discern the love that came to them in the guise of youthful friendship. And now, as adults, independent people, they meet in a show full of adventures - the transportation of gold bequeathed to Jesse to the main city of the state, reproducing the journeys of the first settlers who arrived in America. Over the course of three days, a lot of events occur in the lives of the characters in the novel, which the reader learns about after reading the plot of the book.