Book is in French To be able to buy a farm in Acadia, Alexis, 17, joins a merchant ship that travels between Halifax and the West Indies. During a stopover in New Orleans, he is forced to work on a plantation and there finds his fellow adventurers from the west coast. From the humid heat to the alligators, including the great lords, people in slavery and freed people, the young sailor must get used to life in Louisiana. However, his stay will not be easy. While his dreams are haunted by the vision of a blue eye, Alexis will find himself involved in an attempted kidnapping.