Moze promptly leaves Miss Trixie and Imogene behind, while Addie leaves Imogene enough money to pay for her own passage home. Addie then sends Moze up to Trixie's room, where he discovers the clerk and Trixie having sex. They convince a clerk at the hotel where the group is staying to visit Trixie. When Addie subsequently discovers that Moze has spent their money on a brand-new Model 68 convertible to impress Miss Trixie, she and Imogene devise a plan. Addie soon becomes friends with Imogene and becomes jealous of Trixie. Much to Addie's chagrin, Moze invites 'Miss Trixie'-and her downtrodden African American teenage maid, Imogene-to join Addie and him. One night, Addie and 'Moze' (as Addie addresses him) stop at a local carnival, where Moze becomes enthralled with an 'exotic dancer' named Miss Trixie Delight and leaves Addie at a photo booth to have her photograph taken alone (of herself sitting on a crescent moon, to suggest the film's title). As time passes, Moses and Addie become a formidable team. Addie joins the scam, pretending she is his daughter, and exhibits a talent for confidence tricks, such as selling Bibles and the quick change scam.

Thereafter Moses visits recently widowed women, pretending to have previously sold expensive, personalized Bibles to their deceased husbands, and the widows pay him for the Bibles inscribed with their names. Addie overhears this conversation and, after Moses spends nearly half the money fixing his old Model A convertible and buying her a train ticket, she demands the money as rightfully hers, whereupon Moses agrees to let Addie travel with him until he has raised back the full $200 to give to her. Joseph, Missouri.Īt a local grain mill, Moses convinces the brother of the man who accidentally killed Addie's mother to give him $200 for the newly orphaned Addie. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. In Gorham, Kansas, circa 1936, itinerant con man Moses Pray meets nine-year-old Addie Loggins at her mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father.

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