Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset
Maugham, “The Painted Veil” is a love story set in the 1920s
that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter, a
middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, who get
married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai,
where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers
her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in
a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and
takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their
relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most
remote and beautiful places on earth.
