That sidekick is Joe Barrow, an adopted orphan and indigenous American who cannot speak the Anopa language. (That gives him the classic noir protagonist’s outsider status and resultant curiosity.) He and Drummond caper through this other jazz age, into the …That sidekick is Joe Barrow, an adopted orphan and indigenous American who cannot speak the Anopa language. (That gives him the classic noir protagonist’s outsider status and resultant curiosity.) He and Drummond caper through this other jazz age, into the …