Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Keywords: 1920s , based-on-novel-or-book , chinatown , crime-fiction-writer , femme-fatale , historical-figure , neo-noir , san-francisco-california , semi-fiction