Finally, 35 years after the fact, I watched the beautiful movie Out of Africa with Meryl Streep and . Not sure I can explain what the movie is about. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
I would say it is about nothingness as the meaning of life. Which not a bad motive either.
Lady marries the wrong brother, who has other interests than his wife, but succeeds in transferring syphilis to her. She falls in love with a man that does love her but dies too early in a plane crash.
But she keeps going proudly.