He lived a dozen lives in one, disarmed death with a pointed finger, chose blindness over a bullet, and his ultimate surrender was to love. Based on a true story: a WWI veteran's odyssey from the French Foreign Legion to the Amazon jungle: this is the biographical life story that inspired the screenplay, "The Man With Two Names." Shattered by the trenches of the Somme and the tragic loss of his entire family, Pierre Dominique Roustan turned his back on France. He erased his past, joining the infamous French Foreign Legion, only to find himself in another brutal confict under the North African sun. But his journey was just beginning. Seeking oblivion, he bought a one-way ticket to the New World, where he became a captain on the treacherous Amazon River. In the heart of the jungle, he faced a warrior's blowgun, and with a single, defiant gesture, earned the respect of the indigenous Jibaro tribe. He found a new name, a new love, and a fragile peace, only to have it challenged by the arrival of men from the world he had fled. This sweeping biography, penned by his son, chronicles an unbelievable true life of resilience and reinvention.