El puerto del oro

When he was just a child, Mercator Fleming embarked on a whaling boat following family tradition. As his own expected, there he became a man and became an expert sea wolf, at the cost of losing his innocence. However, upon his return, the death of his father and the avalanche of debts incurred by him force him to change his destiny. Attracted by the news of the gold rush that reaches them from the west coast of the United States, he and his brothers decide to turn their lives around and set out by sea to the impressive redwood forests of California. After six months of intense maritime odyssey aboard the Freedom, Mercator finally reaches that promised land that he keeps in his entrails nuggets of pure gold. San Francisco has grown from a small town on the bay to a lawless city marked by violence, gambling and alcohol. The young Mercator must decide between joining the multitude of men who dedicate their lives in search of that long-awaited golden vein or find another way to carve out that future with which he dreamed before leaving the port of Nantucket, a path that will lead him to live off gold without having to find it.