Five Hundred Yards to Freedom

In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne spends nineteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Every night, hidden behind a poster on his cell wall, he scratches at the concrete with a small rock hammer — not frantically, but patiently, methodically, one handful of dust at a time. He hides the rubble in his pockets and scatters it across the prison yard during exercise.…