A young Irish man experiences frequent injuries and bad luck while growing up. His grandmother tells him that God will give him two bits of good luck for every bit of bad. At 19, while running home from his girlfriend's house, he is mistaken for another young man, abducted and tortured for information he does not have. When his kidnappers realize their mistake they release him, giving him four thousand euros for his trouble. Walking home, he remembers Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" wonders if he is only imagining his emancipation while actually dying under torture.
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A young Irish man experiences frequent injuries and bad luck while growing up. His grandmother tells him that God will give him two bits of good luck for every bit of bad. At 19, while running home from his girlfriend's house, he is mistaken for another young man, abducted and tortured for information he does not have. When his kidnappers realize their mistake they release him, giving him four thousand euros for his trouble. Walking home, he remembers Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" wonders if he is only imagining his emancipation while actually dying under torture.