In any robbery, the main thing is a good plan. And no one knows this better than Dortmunder, because it is he who will have to draw up his next brilliant plan to steal the magnificent emerald. There is only one problem - the emerald seems to be cursed and one single plan cannot do it. Perhaps, if they had known how much work they would have to do in the end, Dortmunder and his team would have refused right away, but everything looked too tempting at first.