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In the stifling world of 1840s Lyonnaise bourgeoisie, Rolanda Calloway endures a marriage to Edmond McAnally, a brutal police commissar who flaunts his mistress. Beneath her porcelain mask of devotion, she nurses a corrosive envy that seeks not freedom nor gain, but total annihilation. This Balzacian tale of gender warfare unfolds her perfect poisoning, exposing the deadliest sin.
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