Based on the classic novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is an epic and captivating love story set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter (Acadamy Award nominee Edward Norton), a middle-class doctor, and Kitty (Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend (Liev Schrieber). In an act of vengeance when he uncovers her infidelity, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and insists that Kitty accompany him. 2006 2006 Painted Veil Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.