Joseph and Harriet Blackstone migrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them before they even begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he succumbs to an excessive obsession with the wealth waiting for him deep in the earth. Leaving behind his farm and family, he sets out alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the beguiling dreams of ‘the color’, hurriedly seek their fate. Among moving and terrifying moments, "The Color" constitutes a quest for the impossible, an attempt to probe the complexities of love and explore the sacrifices that must be made in the pursuit of happiness.