1920'lerden bir aşk öyküsü… Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton), aristokrat bir ailenin şımarık kızı Kitty'e (Naomi Watts) bir partide tutulur ve hemen ona evlenme teklifi eder. Kitty’nin Walter’da pek gönlü olmasa da sırf ailesinin diline düşmemek için kabul eder. Ancak Walter her ne kadar tutkulu olsa da Kitty’e karşı tutkusunu belli edemez ve Kitty evliliğinde mutlu değildir. Mutsuzluğu, ilgisinin cesur ve espritüel diplomat Charlie Townsend’e (Liev Schreiber) kaymasına neden olur. Karısının sadakatsizliğini farkeden Walter, ondan intikam almaya kararlıdır. Ama bunu bilindik yollardan yapmayacaktır. Walter Çin'in ufak ve ölümcül kolera salgınından kırılan bir köyünde gönüllü hekimlik yapmaya karar verir. Kitty'nin ise onunla gitmekten başka şansı yoktur. Ölüm ve yaşam arasındaki sınırın incecik olduğu bu köye yaptıkları yolculuk, kendi ilişkileri için de bir dönüm noktası olacaktır.
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
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?
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