A dramatisation by Chris Dolan from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, which tells of a doomed love affair in 18th-century Colombia between a priest and a young girl. Sierva Maria is bitten by a rabid dog at a slave market and survives, while others bitten by the same dog are soon dead. Rumours spread that she is possessed by the devil. Father Delaura is sent to examine her and, if necessary, to carry out an exorcism. But instead Delaura falls under her spell.