Horse with No Name Film Project

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Horse With No Name Eddy had come to Vietnam during the war as an idealistic young journalist. What he saw during that war changed him: he ended up cynical, disillusioned, and strung out on heroin. Finally, he gave up everything…his country, his profession and his past…married to a Vietnamese prostitute and became a simple dirt farmer. His life wasn’t easy, but at least it was his.

Then one day, word came to Eddy that the one contact with his past life that he hadn’t forsaken, a Dutch journalist named Frans Glistenor, would soon be in Ho Chi Minh City and wants to see Eddy. For many reasons the choice is a difficult one, but Eddy decides to see his old friend again. Frans is in Vietnam doing a story on American MIA chasers, and asks Eddy if he would consider doing a book of photography about the other Vietnam vets. Eddy tells him he hasn’t taken a photo in over eight years…in fact, his camera is now a rusted piece of junk. Never mind that, Frans says, and he gives Eddy a new camera and a $500 advance.

But Frans isn’t the only face from the past Eddy encounters that day. He also runs into Jack Nguyen, a Vietnamese pimp and black marketeer who knew Eddy during the lowest point in his life. If it’s the last time they ever see each other, it would be fine with Eddy. Jack has other ideas: he, too, has heard about the American MIA chasers and he sees in Eddy a chance to profit handsomely from their chance meeting. At a distance, he trails Eddy back to his farm, and lies in wait until he can snap a photo of Eddy in the company of his Vietnamese neighbors, a photo that might be easily misrepresented. He does so, and in Saigon he offers to sell the photos to a former U.S. Congressman named McClendon who has made a very good living since retiring by soliciting money to track down American MIA’s. Burned in the past by faked photos, McClendon is ecstatic with Jack’s offering and gladly meets his price. He returns to the Untied States to verify his prize and capitalize on it.

Back in the States, McClendon reveals his new "evidence" at a press conference, and announces that he has established the identity of the MIA in the photo. What McClendon doesn’t know is that Frans is at that same press conference, and he knows the face in the photo is Eddy’s, no that of the supposed MIA. Frans hurriedly calls his editor, who suggests Frans return to Vietnam to verify the brewing scandal before exposing it.

At this point the groundwork is set for a final countdown in Hanoi, and a resolution of the conflicts at work.

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