Evan was born into captivity on a small Island in the South Pacific secretly run by the Danish government. There he toiled for long days making wicker baskets and commemorative wall spoons for the Scandinavian tourism industry, until one day he managed to escape onboard a Peruvian raisin ship bound for the North Americas. He taught himself screenwriting by reading and re-reading a pamphlet for sexually-transmitted diseases he found in an old suitcase.