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sorceress, becomes a high-powered television journalist, equally conflicted by her profession as a war reporter in her occupied country. She enters the army camp, ostensibly to interview the soldiers, but with the intention of subverting them. When she and
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knight, becomes an army officer conflicted about his love for peace and his duty as a soldier. Armida, Tasso's beautiful
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