it is a love story. actually it is two love stories. it is about dr apelles, who is a lonely middle-aged indian translator who comes across a manuscript of a love story between two young and beautiful indians a hundred years ago, and since he's the only one who speaks the language in which the manuscript is written, he has to translate it. it sounds very dull, which is what i thought initially when it was assigned, but it honestly is fantastic. i really recommend it to you, especially.