Wealthy plantation owner and Confederate Captain Matthew Kendall loses everything in the war except his best friend and former personal slave, Lum. Together, they leave the ruins of his plantation and the graves of his wife and family to make a new start in the land of the Silver Spring where, he was told, you can see a pebble sixty feet below the surface. There he finds exciting and sometimes hilarious adventures as he stumbles through the confusing emotions of a newfound love. There he finds hope and passion. There he finds Wynn!