The lad Henry Weaver was raised by his father after his mother died while he was very young. His father was very poor and he had nothing to give the young boy. He asked a certain nun to place him in a foster home and the nun allowed Mr. Hopkins to adopt Henry. After leaving for a brief time under Mr. Hopkins home Henry was sent to school. He failed his examinations and Mr. Hopkins refuses to pay for his school fees. Henry was later adopted by a man called Mr. Baldwin who raised him as his own son while Mr. Hopkins was sent to prison. Later Henry with the help of a friend set out on a journey to go and find some deeply buried secrets about The Riley tribe.