THE MOSTLY TRUE TALE OF GETTING ROOFIED IN TOKYO AND WAKING UP MARRIED IN RURAL THAILAND

Finally. The fresh story you’ve been waiting to make.

From Oscar Slamp, a man who prefers the shadows.

A hallucinatory memoir. A broken compass love story. A pilgrimage, derailed.

Think Into the Wild meets Hangover meets a late-stage spiritual awakening. Or, Eat Pray Love, if it had been written by Hunter S. Thompson in a Wild Turkey blackout.

Shot like a fever dream. Told like a eulogy.

After a slow collapse, Willie Lyonsan sets off on what was supposed to be a soul-cleansing pilgrimage across Japan. Instead, he’s unexpectedly roofied, inexplicably rescued and miraculously relocated. When he regains his senses he’s in rural Thailand with a wife, a tattoo, and no clear memory of any of it. The rest of the story weaves through what happened before, and after — probably.

Told by Oscar Slamp, his oldest and best friend, and the only man still trying to make sense of it, The Mostly True Tale is a nonlinear unraveling of one man’s accidental reinvention — full of gut punch honesty, strange romance, burned bridges, barroom saints, a Boston Bull named Louie, and moments of sublime spiritual clarity buried in absurdity.

For fans of:

• The Beach (but older, grittier, realer)
• A24-style memoir films
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (but quieter and sadder)
• Bourdain’s Parts Unknown meets Adaptation

Tone: Wandering. Wild. Deeply human.

Structure: Nonlinear — past and present unravel, somehow together.

Voice: Narrated by Oscar. Imagine a drunk Kerouac reading a eulogy on a rooftop at dawn.

CHARACTERS

• Willie Lyonsan – A man you can’t help but root for, even as he loses the plot.
• Oscar Slamp – Narrator, friend, possible ghost, definite unreliable guide.
• Chitra – The Thai woman who may or may not be his wife, or his savior.
• Wasum – Her niece. A muse. A doorway.
• Louie – Willie’s Boston Bull. Loyal, soulful, and sometimes smarter than everyone else in the room.
• Lexi, Hui Ko, Nina Duvall, and, of course, Maria – The women who made him and eventually broke him before he left.

WHY THIS STORY

This isn’t a memoir, and it’s not fiction. It’s the kind of fresh story that makes a lot of sense on screen — told in fractured memories, overheard conversations, moments of radiant collapse.

A rare film where you leave unsure what happened, wanting more, and totally certain it happened to you.

Full book available on request.

Author is open to collaboration, adaptation, and creative interpretation.

Rights available.

CONTACT: yourname@oscarslamp.com