sentences:  The two become a couple but they break up because of Alma's incertitude.One day, her mother receives a letter from a mysterious man named Jacob Marcus who requests that she translate "The History of Love" from Spanish to English for $100,000, to be paid in increments of $25,000 as the work progresses.Alma's mother finds the sum suspicious, but the stranger confesses that his mother used to read the book to him when he was a child, so it has a great sentimental value.