In the early morning of October 2, 1664, Don Sebastian Espada, a lieutenant of the Spanish musketeers, saw the shores of the New World for the first time. At noon of the same day, he already met local pirates, and by the evening he learned from personal experience what a shipwreck was. And that was just the beginning. Pirates at sea, robbers on land, Indians in the jungle and murderers in the cities seemed to have conspired to destroy the noble hidalgo. True, a beautiful and mysterious stranger appeared in his life, but... nothing good came of this either. The beauty famously pushed him into a confrontation with Mictlantecuhtli himself - the god of the dead, and now the servants of the dead god are ready to do anything just to send the lieutenant to a meeting with with his stern deity. It seems that all these problems can be solved in only one way. Don Sebastian must find the Black Moneylender. And then - who will win...