He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a  museum devoted to the vanished American past, he find he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life an culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwelelrs, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains. But after 6 years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself...