The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations.
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