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A partner of Wim Wenders in the script writing for Paris, Texas (1984), only now, 21 years later, is Sam Shepard acting, for the first time, in a film by the German director. He plays the role of Howard Spence, a star of westerns who walks out on the set for a new film and goes in search of the women in his life. He begins with his mother, whom he has not seen for 30 years. Talking to her, he is told that decades ago, he got a girl in Montana pregnant. Drinking and womanizing, having lost the taste for life itself, Howard follows this vague clue towards picking up the threads of ill-resolved fatherhood. The story visits the American west anew. This is a mythical site to German director Wim Wenders who filmed Paris, Texas there. A second reference to this location refers to Dashiell Hammett, the U.S. police writer about whom Wenders, some years ago, made a film - Hammet. He indirectly pays tribute to Hammett by setting most of this new existential road movie in Butte,