Opium

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The plot follows Professor Gesellius, a European doctor researching the medicinal benefits of opium, who travels to China and becomes immersed in its exotic underworld. There, he samples the drug and rescues Sin from Nung-Tschang's clutches, bringing her back to his England-based sanitarium for opium addicts, where tensions arise with his wife over Sin's role as a nurse and an affair involving his assistant. Seeking escape, Gesellius accepts a grant to study opium in India, encountering further temptations amid romanticized depictions of Eastern cultures, all underscored by themes of addiction, debauchery, and hallucinatory escapism from postwar despair. (Grokipedia)

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