Ulysses Everett McGill persuades two naïfs from his prison chain gang to help him reclaim a stolen treasure, although his definition of this treasure is much different from that which he truly seeks. Fraught with the perils of blind seers, sirens, and cyclops in a Depression-era landscape, this is the musically enriched story of a proud, deceitful, and boisterous man, who learns that humility can bring him nearer to his goal than any type of clever huckstering or confidence scheme.
—John Drew