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Ball of Fat Part 3
In which a group of travellers, detained by a Prussian officer in a snowbound inn, engage in subtle negotiations and shifting attitudes amid the pressing tension of their confinement. The courtesan Boule de Suif, at the centre of their predicament, becomes the focus of both scorn and reluctant dependence as the others delicately press her towards a difficult decision with a mix of genteel persuasion and social calculation.
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