Istoriya lyubvi, pobezhdayushchey vse -vremya i prostranstvo, zhiznennyye nevzgody i dazhe nesovershenstvo chelovecheskoy dushi. Smuglaya krasavitsa Fermina otvergla yunosheskuyu lyubov' druga detstva Florentino Arisa i predpochla stat' suprugoy doktora Khuvenalya Urbino, uchenogo, mechtayushchego izbavit' ispanskiye kolonii ot ikh smertonosnogo bicha -chumy. No Florentino ne teryayet nadezhdy. On zhdet - zhdet i lyubit. I neistovaya sila yego lyubvi lish' krepnet s godami. Takaya lyubov' dostoy ...