Relic and Nick Adonidas live on the west coast of Canada. The sale of alluvial wood to the sawmill brings so little money that the two "beach pirates" are dependent on ancillary business. The young Indian Jesse gets in the way of the beach pirates.
Jesse and Hugh attempt to figure out how to angle for salmon from an old troller man, who may uninformed of individual issues he is going to be stood up to with.
Jesse decides to host a "potlatch" in which a man gives away all of his possessions but the celebration produces different actions from people in the area.
Hugh becomes hopelessly enamored out of the blue yet the question of his warmth declines to have anything to do with him unless Hugh joins a strange mystery society.
Somebody is endeavoring to make a nearby truck lumberjack bankrupt. Scratch and Jesse volunteer to ride with the man on his next excursion to stop any more endeavors of treachery.
Jesse and Hugh are pool sharks at the nearby pool lobby and Nick promises to show them a lesson however Nick's misrepresentations may undermind his errand.
A man incredible in the Gibsons territory for working with explosive sets up his last occupation yet Nick and Jesse presume the man might hope to end his life in the meantime.