Description

Henri Charrière, named "Papillon," for that butterfly tattoo on his chest, was charged in Paris in 1931 of the killing he didn't commit. Sentenced alive imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became enthusiastic about one objective: escape. After planning and executing a number of dangerous however failed efforts over a long time, he was ultimately delivered to the infamous jail, Devil's Island, a location that no body had previously escaped. .