The film's main focus was a quadrangular love story between unequals: a conflicted 42 year-old divorced TV comedy writer, an optimistic 17 year-old prep-school sweetheart, a flighty, vascillating and intellectually-neurotic and cynical divorced female journalist, and a university literature teacher and cheating husband.] Deeds' pet English setter dog anticipates the arrival of his owner by jumping up on the inside of the front door with his paws.She blamed the Tramp, who happened o be passing by, accosted him and whacked him with her umbrella, dragged him over to her carriage, and forcibly insisted hat he again take the infant - under the watchful eye of the summoned policeman at the scene.Along the way under the heat and lash, many prisoners die.When they stop enroute at the small town of Nazareth for water, the slaves are permitted o drink only after the soldiers and their horses are finished...You should sweep me off my feet out yonder window and down a rope onto your valiant steed." She wanted him to recite a song, ballad, or sonnet for her, and then presented him with her handkerchief as a token of her gratitude for rescue - yet still complained that she wanted a traditional 'fairy-tale' rescue, although all the other knights had perished saving her: "You were meant to charge in, sword drawn, banner flying, that's what all the other knights did.