Década de 1920. Walter Fane, é um médico de classe média alta, que é casado com Kitty. Eles se casaram pelos mesmos motivos e logo se mudaram para Xangai, onde Kitty, se apaixona por outra pessoa. Quando descobre a infidelidade da esposa, Walter, se vinga aceitando um emprego numa remota vila da China, que foi arruinada por uma epidemia fatal. Kitty, parte com ele, com a jornada e a estada no local servindo para mudar o significado do relacionamento existente entre eles.
When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into an epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug mule from the plane, who was smuggling cocaine in his stomach, infects the drugs, which will be on the streets soon. And to top things off, her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?
Winnifred tem tuberculose, e sua irmã mais nova Trixie está angustiada. Quando o médico diz a Trixie que sua irmã mais velha morrerá quando a última folha do outono cair, ela leva as palavras dele a sério e tenta salvá-la usando um cordão para amarrar as folhas mortas de volta nas árvores.
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