Time to Kill (1989)

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Nicolas Cage ('Moonstruck', 'Raising Arizona', 'The Rock') delivers a powerful performance as Enrico, a young soldier stationed in Africa, whose struggle to survive the consequences of a passionate crime ignites an obsessive search for rescue and redemption. A painful toothache becomes the catalyst for a series of bizarre events when Enrico abandons his camp in search of a dentist, but finds instead a hidden oasis and sanctuary with an exotic young African woman.
A brief moment of violent lust gives way to an unexpected bond of friendship, but their passionate encounter comes to an abrupt end when she is mortally wounded one night by one of his stray bullets. Guilt-ridden, Enrico covers up his crime, only to be confronted with the chilling realization that she may have infected him with leprosy. Haunted by the threat of banishment and fearful that he may never be allowed to go home again, Enrico embarks upon a desperate odyssey, searching for the truth in her past and the fate of his future.