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The narrative follows a young working-class man whose casual encounter with a political leaflet leads to his entanglement in a suspected bombing conspiracy. Arrested and isolated, he endures prolonged confinement, physical coercion, and relentless interrogation that compels him to confess and implicate others to escape harsher punishment. Episodes alternate intimate, terrified interior moments with scenes of bureaucratic manipulation and legal menace, while the story probes the pressures that drive political dissent and the ways authorities exploit fear, accidents, and fragile testimony. The tone remains observational, exposing injustice, the fragility of individual fate, and the social forces that turn chance into catastrophe.
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