剧情介绍
故事发生在第二次世界大战刚刚结束之际，卡罗尔（埃琳诺·帕克 Eleanor Parker 饰）和保罗（让-皮埃尔·奥蒙特 Jean-Pierre Aumont 饰）的外遇恋情被卡罗尔的丈夫沃尔特（比尔·特拉弗斯 Bill Travers 饰）发现了，沃尔特给了卡罗尔两个选择，要么和他一起前往位于中国的一个非常偏僻的村庄之中，那里霍乱横行，要么就离婚。最终，卡罗尔在无奈之中和沃尔特一起上路了。
在中国，卡罗尔结识了自由不羁的提姆（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰），并且通过他在修道院里谋了一份差事，卡罗尔和沃尔特之间的感情也随着时间的推移而渐渐修复，一切都看似在往井井有条的方向发展，可是，在这个节骨眼上，沃尔特染上瘟疫去世了，与此同时，卡罗尔发现自己怀孕了。 1949 Hong Kong. Married to other people, American Carolyn Carwin and French shipping executive Paul Duvel are having an affair. Carolyn admits that she never loved or has even really got to know her British medical doctor turned bacteriologist husband Walter Carwin, she having accepted his marriage proposal solely to stoke what was her damaged ego at the time. Walter, in turn, has always loved Carolyn despite being aware of her vanity and general narcissism. Carolyn suspects that Walter knows about the affair, a suspicion that is ultimately confirmed when he confronts her about it. In an ultimatum by Walter concerning the infidelity, Carolyn feels she has no other option but to agree to move to rural May Tan Fu on the Chinese mainland with him, there where a cholera outbreak has occurred. She has no desire to live in a remote backwater, let alone one where disease is running rampant. The health crisis, to which Walter feels his background is well suited in assisting, is something on ...
在中国，卡罗尔结识了自由不羁的提姆（乔治·桑德斯 George Sanders 饰），并且通过他在修道院里谋了一份差事，卡罗尔和沃尔特之间的感情也随着时间的推移而渐渐修复，一切都看似在往井井有条的方向发展，可是，在这个节骨眼上，沃尔特染上瘟疫去世了，与此同时，卡罗尔发现自己怀孕了。 1949 Hong Kong. Married to other people, American Carolyn Carwin and French shipping executive Paul Duvel are having an affair. Carolyn admits that she never loved or has even really got to know her British medical doctor turned bacteriologist husband Walter Carwin, she having accepted his marriage proposal solely to stoke what was her damaged ego at the time. Walter, in turn, has always loved Carolyn despite being aware of her vanity and general narcissism. Carolyn suspects that Walter knows about the affair, a suspicion that is ultimately confirmed when he confronts her about it. In an ultimatum by Walter concerning the infidelity, Carolyn feels she has no other option but to agree to move to rural May Tan Fu on the Chinese mainland with him, there where a cholera outbreak has occurred. She has no desire to live in a remote backwater, let alone one where disease is running rampant. The health crisis, to which Walter feels his background is well suited in assisting, is something on ...
