In The Unicorn, The Mystery, we meet a unicorn who tells us the story of the seven tapestries, called "The Hunt of the Unicorn" from the 1500s on display in "the unicorn room" in The Cloister in Manhattan, now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tapestries tell the story of what is still called an "unsolved mystery." The story is set in an abbey in France not far from the barn in the countryside where the tapestries were discovered. Pursued by a band of hunters, the unicorn is led along by observing birds, smelling and eating the abbey flowers and fruits (including imbibing in fermented pomegranates), pursuing chaste maidens (there is one in the tapestry) and at times speaks to other animals such as the majestic stag.