The Seventh Sin (1957)

In postWWII Hong Kong unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice travel with him to China where he will fight a cholera epidemic or face the scandal of a public divorce She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative If Pauls wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce Carol presents Walters deal to Paul who regretfully declines citing respect for his wifeCarol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village where she meets boozesoaked Tim He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospitalconvent and Carol begins to reevaluate her selfabsorbed life and character Working at the convent Carol learns she is pregnant She tells Walter shes unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty Shortly after Walter contracts cholera and dies Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future