Henry Maynard

Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend Sophie Beginnings, endings, tricks...could the French be on to something?

Le fort de Gwalior, pendant la rébellion indienne de 1857. Dans un moment de désespoir, Lakshmibai, rani de Jhansi, encourage ses hommes en leur racontant l'histoire héroïque d'Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, un courageux guerrier telugu qui prit les armes en 1846 pour protester contre les nombreux arbitraires et crimes perpétrés par les dirigeants et les forces militaires de l'Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales.