In the murky depths of the Gulf of Mexico, Bobby Western, a salvage diver with a troubled past, finds himself at the heart of a mystery. The crash of a sunken jet with bodies still strapped in, hair eerily floating, sets off a chain of events that drags Bobby across the seedy barrooms of New Orleans to the desolation of an abandoned oil rig. As he uncovers truths that should have stayed submerged, he navigates the perils of human consciousness and the legacy of familial sin. Cormac McCarthy crafts a tale of loss, fear, and a man's search for redemption in a world where the lines between right and wrong are blurred by moral ambiguity and the weight of history.