The Painted Veil

A British medical doctor, Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton), fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife, Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts). They travel to Walter's medical post in Shanghai, where he is stationed in a government lab studying infectious diseases. Kitty meets Charles Townsend, a married British vice consul, with whom she has a passionate, clandestine affair, but eventually learns from her experience as a volunteer at a French nunnery and matures into a woman capable of love and respect for her husband.