Somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, a French expedition is said to have buried a fortune in gold bullion in the 1790s before vanishing into legend. This film follows the two-century hunt for that treasure, now valued near $33 million, tracing the trail of prospectors, homesteaders, and treasure hunters who have gone looking for it since. Many never made it back, and the film lays out the deaths attributed to the site: shootings, accidents, sudden illness, and reports of unexplained encounters that locals blame on a curse laid over the gold itself. Historians and treasure researchers walk through the original French claim, the landmarks said to mark the cache, and the competing theories about why, despite two hundred years of searching with modern equipment, nobody has produced a single bar of it. The documentary treats the curse angle as part of the region's folklore rather than settled fact, while taking the historical expedition and the body count of searchers seriously as a real, documented pattern.