The film picks up the Robin Hood legend some twenty years after with Robin and his sidekick Little John return to their old Sherwood Forest embittered by King Richard, by the Crusades and their sickening brutality
They're informed by former friends Friar Tuck and Will that the lovely Maid Marian now lives nearby, where she has become the abbess
And the sheriff is as powerful as ever and rules the country
Marian greets Robin's return with mixed feelings, and tells him that, in the passed two decades, she worked hard studying herbs and medicines, and she loves her life and she won't give it up
Of course, after the return of Robin, Marian could not imagine herself living in the world again, or even wanting to
But after he rescues her from his long time enemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham, who tries to arrest her on religious grounds, the two become lovers once again
As Robin, Connery is a little bit in love with death
He flirts, he teases, he challenges his strong enemy to a single combat to the death...
As Marian, Hepburn felt so little for so long