Le transporté (2/4)

A young woman confined in a damp cell resists the persistent advances and threats of a coercive visitor who manipulates a newspaper to accuse her lover of political crimes and to menace her with deportation to a deadly penal colony or exile into a squalid house of prostitution. She maintains a resolute silence, studies the printed lists with painstaking care, and then composes a desperate, improvised message by cutting words from the paper, preparing a petition to a powerful patron to verify her identity and seek rescue.