A story of a man about to lose everything he loves; The women he lives with, his 1930s mansion in which his only son died, a future as a writer with the publication of his first book, a job as a professor at a local university where students flocked to his classes to the displeasure of other professors, and then one restless night his son comes to him in a dream, "go to the ocean for a miracle to save our home," and trembling, he wakes and against his lady's objections, they drive to the stormy ocean with waves crashing upon the beach to find the treasure revealed in the dream to save his home... and they do, a hundred pound bale of the sacred herb, worth enough to solve all the financial problems. Is it a curse? Or a blessing? A story of a man fighting to maintain a life he loves, soon finds himself alone, facing prison and against a world once filled with people who admired him, writing him off as if he never existed, including the woman he loves.