Summary
In a Honduran backwater where the air itself seems narcotized by torpor, two spectral legends—Al Jennings, the pistol-poet of the Oklahoma plains, and William Sydney Porter, the pharmacist-turned-word-wizard who signs his contraband stories “O. Henry”—collide like heat-lightning over moonshine. The year is unimportant; calendars rot here. Jennings, beard flecked with road-dust and myth, drags his bandit shadow through cantina doorways, hunting refuge from a past that keeps reloading its six-gun. Porter, consumptive, eyes glittering with ironic compassion, scribbles plot twists on cigarette papers while a peasant revolution smolders in the surrounding hills. Between malarial dusk and rifle-crack dawn the men trade confessions, memories, and bullets: one seeking redemption through revolt, the other seeking a last anecdote worth dying for. The camera lingers on their clasped hands—scarred ink-stained outlaw, ink-scarred gentleman thief—while insurgent torches paint the plaza blood-gold and the tropics exhale gunpowder perfume. Friendship, here, is merely another form of ammunition.
Synopsis
A dramatization of the real-life meeting of Al Jennings, the celebrated ex-bandit, with O. Henry, noted writer of short stories, in a drowsy village of Honduras, at a time when the two were able to take part in a revolution brewing just then. Al Jennings and William Sidney Porter aka O. Henry were life-long friends.
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