In a tumble-down house carved out of the dunes lives an old man with second sight.

He is the sifter of sands, the man who separates the sparkling mica, black lava, golden-reds, and misty grays.

And as he sifts he mesmerizes Jessica and Andrew with his tales of the trickster-creator Raven and how a lonely young man lived to be 300 years old.