A Yankee Go-Getter

In 'A Yankee Go-Getter', director James Young navigates the treacherous waters of identity and economic precariousness through the odyssey of Barry West. A literati in distress, West is stripped of his mechanical quill—a stolen typewriter—and cast into the unforgiving urban sprawl. This picaresque journey takes a sharp turn toward the surreal when a found pocketbook introduces a motif of the uncanny: two women of indistinguishable visage laying claim to the same artifact. This bifurcated reality propels West into a Machiavellian arrangement with Nicholas Lanza, where the price of financial salvation is a matrimonial union with Lucia Robilant. The narrative spirals into a gothic conspiracy as a political usurper, Vera, replaces the kidnapped Lucia. Through subterranean architectural secrets and a harrowing realization of his own domestic entrapment, West must navigate a labyrinth of deception to dismantle Lanza’s hegemony and reclaim the woman who mirrors his own fragmented aspirations.