She was a fool, and he knew it, but since he loved her, it didn't matter. Walter Fane is a bacteriologist assigned to Hong Kong, and Kitty is his attractive but vapid wife. She begins an affair with the handsome, alluring, and captivating Charles Townsend after becoming dissatisfied with her marriage. However, when Walter learns of her fraud, he exacts an odd and horrific retaliation: Kitty is forced to travel with him to his new posting in a distant area of mainland China where a cholera outbreak is raging. ..