It’s October 2011 and Dr. Emit Archer—host of the popular web series Unearthed—has been offline since the death of his wife and daughter one year ago. His producer sends him to authenticate and build an episode around an artifact that could make the return of the show an historic event.
A mysterious Hopi Shaman claims he possesses the 400-year-old Morion (helmet) of Hernán Cortés himself. He believes that the global unveiling of this artifact on Unearthed will fulfill an ancient prophetic benchmark that will usher in their Fifth World.
Archer leaves behind his son, his mandated grief counseling and a planet of denial on a journey into the high desert of New Mexico and a deep canyon of deception and greed that stretches across the centuries and the Americas.
