Love in the Time of Cholera

How long would you wait for love?

A sweeping, melancholic meditation on enduring love across decades, tracing the arc from youthful passion through separation and marriage to a final, tender reunion.

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.