Rosemary Ferris and Dr. David Kade meet in the midst of conflict between two rival excavations in the mountains of central New Mexico. In the late twenties as the on-going search into the ancient cities of long ago native Americans continues, Rosemary's father represents the old way of the unschooled amateurs called pot-hunters while young Kade is a university trained archaeologist who scorns the careless ways of the past. Yet the attraction between Rosemary and David is so powerful that they are tempted to imagine a future together, even though they find hundreds of years separating them in time as they struggle to come to terms with a strange joining of past and present at the long abandoned pueblo.
