Former archer Fyodor Myatelev, fugitive slave Minka Ivanov and Zaporozhye Cossack Ivan Rog flee from a Turkish galley. Fate brought them to Spain, where they met the royal adelantado Captain Sebastiani, who was equipping an expedition to the New World. Friends joined the detachment, crossed the ocean and arrived in the Viceroyalty of Peru. A long and difficult journey awaited them into the wilds of the unexplored continent in search of the country of the Golden King.