
He skips the border to Texas to live in Mexico with Andy. Through a secret message of Andy he later finds out, where Andy is.

Red has been paroled after serving forty years in prison. The lieutenant is arrested and the warden commits suicide. Using underground methods and money he secretly did hide from the warden he manages to escape from the region and expose the corrupt activities of the warden and his lieutenant. Andy has done what everybody else said he couldn't do, he escaped from Shawshank Prison by crawling through a sewage pipe and washing in a thunderstorm. At the very end, the warden cannot find Andy, and discovers that the poster of Raquel Welch was so important to Andy because it was covering the escape tunnel he was digging in his cell for twenty years with Red's rock hammer. He tells Red that he is planning an escape, but only Red believes he can pull it off.Īndy has hope that he will escape from the dreadful prison, a hope that will make him look into the very depths of his soul. Andy gets a poster of Raquel Welch and adores it, which nobody else understands. While at Shawshank, he is beaten and raped repeatedly by a gang while working in the prison laundry, and the corrupt warden and his lieutenant are abusive to Andy to the extent of commiting crimes on the way. While there, he finds a friend in Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. He is sent to Shawshank State Prison for a life sentence.

A meek banker named Andy Dufresne is wrongfully convicted of murdering both his wife and her lover in 1947.
