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The Missionary's Wife

(1997)
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Jilted by a local aristocrat and bereft following the death of her mother, Clara meets and falls in love with a visiting missionary. They marry and she joins him in Africa in an enclave of huts, dust and flies. There, as tribal warfare spills into the camp, Clara begins a heart-wrenching discovery.


Genre: Historical

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