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A wealthy collector hires a speech coach to teach him how to sound ordinary. She discovers his smallest lie is the one thing he owns without borrowing, and must choose whether the public's appetite for his downfall matters more than the people his spectacle employs.
A pastry cook in 1791 is commissioned to bake a cathedral large enough to walk inside. A carpenter hired to support the sugar walls discovers that the extravagant dessert is concealing a very practical plan to keep the town's poorest residents outside the celebration.
A luxury retreat accidentally invites its former cleaners to a complimentary weekend intended for celebrity guests. A retired housekeeper and a night receptionist decide to stay, forcing the retreat's language of belonging to survive contact with the people who made its beds.
A fashionable 1927 hostess invites the city's grandest people to bid farewell to furniture she is secretly selling to pay her staff. Her upholsterer and an exhausted society reporter discover that the chairs remember more honest conversations than any of the guests will admit.
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