Francine""s pregnancy was causing her abdominal sickness.In the mall""s main offices, they found stacks of cash that were free for the taking, and all of them went on various endless shopping sprees, indulging their consumeristic, materialistic and culinary desires with food, haircuts, and arcade video games.The film""s scrolling prologue described the historical background: the Hundred Years"" War (1337 to 1453), between France and England) had just ended:"With the end of the 15th century, the Middle Ages came to a close.Altman""s rambling, semi-improvised film, shot almost entirely in sequence, featured great cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond who created an antique-like, golden-hued, sepia-toned, painterly portrait of the unsightly town in the early 1900s.On the stagecoach ride to town, Ollie tries to impress the only female passenger (Vivien Oakland) with small talk and meaningless non-sequiturs, causing her discomfort to grow very quickly:A lot of weather we""ve been having lately.