Plot introduction:
The film begins at 1946. Andy, a banker from Maine, gets drunk, gets in the car, loads the pistol, and then his wife cheats. Then he was sentenced to prison and became a felon in Shawshank prison.
In prison, he and the black prisoner Reid helped each other and became good friends; But a group of prisoners led by Boggs often attack Andy. Later, the prison guards discovered Andy's financial management ability, and they all came to him for investment consultation, and even came to him to consult their children's further education. The warden asked him to make false accounts to profit from it.
Many years later, one day, Andy solemnly told Reed that if you get out of prison, you must dig out a box under a tree somewhere. That night, Andy escaped from prison. After Reid was released, he did as Andy said, and the two friends met again on the Mexican coast.