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summary
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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Romance ꞏ Drama ꞏ infidelity ꞏ china ꞏ based on novel or book ꞏ shanghai ꞏ china ꞏ nun ꞏ cholera ꞏ foreign aid ꞏ doctor ꞏ epidemic ꞏ convent (nunnery) ꞏ loveless marriage ꞏ 1920s ꞏ bacteriologist