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Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica “Jesse” Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade. Her father’s dying wish – that she take over as head of Mount Olive Baptist Church – turns her life and her family’s life upside down.
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The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
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