The daughter of the wealthy hacienda owner Joam Garral is getting married, and the entire family accompanies the bride and groom on the journey to the wedding venue. The transport for all of them will be a giant raft - the jangada, and the road will be the greatest river in the world, the Amazon. The general joy over the upcoming journey is somewhat overshadowed by the doubts of the head of the family: for many years he has not set foot on the soil of Brazil, and not without reason... In the translation of the novel, all the notes identified when checking with the original text were restored