At 11 p.m. on December 8, 2024, the night clerk at Sumberkima Hill, a private villa resort overlooking the mountains of Bali, was at his desk when a Polish woman named Karolina Krzyzak checked in. She had made a last-minute reservation through WhatsApp requesting a villa with a pool. She also had two specific dietary requirements: She would need her meals delivered directly to her room, and the meals would have to be only fruit.

The request didn’t strike Bernard Hudepohl, the hotel’s owner, as unusual. It wasn’t uncommon for hotel guests to ask for vegan meals or even for them to make their own juices in their room if they were on a cleanse. But when Karolina arrived at the hotel, he and his staff were shocked by her appearance. She was emaciated, her eyes sunken into her skull and her co

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