Terry Jones, better known for Monty Python, turns historian for a tour through how different eras actually thought about sex and love, and the attitudes he finds rarely match modern assumptions. The film moves across centuries of European history, pulling in court records, letters, and artwork to show that ideas about marriage, romance, and desire were often far more practical, and sometimes far more explicit, than popular memory suggests. Jones plays the amiable guide throughout, narrating with the same dry wit he brought to his Python work while pointing out the everyday realities behind the myths, such as arranged marriages built on property rather than passion, and the surprisingly frank medical and religious writing on sexual behavior from centuries past. The tone stays light without losing the historical detail, and the film's real interest is in showing how recent the modern idea of romantic love actually is.