The Mule

SYNOPSIS: The story illustrates the decline of an ordinary man, who has lost everything; including his home and his livelihood. He finally experiences his worst fear; the hopeless, helpless state of homelessness. Every day becomes a quest for survival, until he is approached by a criminal, who offers him his doom; disguised as an opportunity, by sacrificing him, as a means to a malicious end. Our protagonist finds himself in a South American jail, where, by a strange convergence of events and the commission of a murder, he finds his way back from an unfathomable abyss, to reclaim and rebuild his life. This is a fictional tale of triumph based on a reality; in which many vulnerable, unfortunate people are led astray by nefarious characters. Many still languishing in foreign prisons, oceans away from home.