Down-and-out
WILLY MULLER once thrived as a well-regarded British TV journalist. But things fell apart for him after his wife, Oona, slipped and crushed her skull in the kitchen during a drunken argument.
He served jail time for murder until the conviction was overturned. Eleven years after being cleared, he remains a vilified public figure, reduced to writing trashy celebrity biographies to make ends meet.
His surviving daughter, Sophie, also despises him, stooping to make contact only when she needs money to support her drug habit.
After his heart attack, Willy convalesces in a Puerto Vallarta house supplied by his agent, accompanied by his girlfriend, a Pollyanna who suffers his boorishness with a patience beyond human understanding.
Shortly after Oona’s death, in an attempt to pay his legal bills, Willy wrote a tell-almost-all memoir; as he relates his tale in Puerto Vallarta, he is struggling to adapt the memoir into a screenplay, despite his awareness of the venture’s unseemliness