The Horseman on the Roof

Having joined noblewoman Pauline in a prison-like quarantine for cholera, Italian expatriate Angelo looks down from the window, hoping to find an escape route. Pauline tells him, contemplating suicide in her despair, believing she will never find her husband even if she survives the epidemic, "Before you came, I looked down. I thought: It's so easy to die. So brief. You just slip away." (1:26)

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