The new Ruth & Boaz movie on Netflix—which began streaming on Netflix today—will no doubt sound familiar to anyone who knows their Bible.

The movie—which is produced by Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin, directed by Alanna Brown, and written by Michael Elliot and Cory Tynan—is a modern day re-telling of The Book of Ruth from the Bible. It’s the first of many faith-based films to come from Perry and Franklin, under their new multi-picture deal.

In an interview for the Netflix Tudum article about the movie, Franklin said, “Tyler and I have been great friends for over 15 years, so when he called me to team up on movies that can uplift the human spirit, I jumped at the chance and we couldn’t have a better partner than Netflix to help us inspire the world. Ruth & Boaz has been a true labor of love, and I’m grateful to finally share this first look with the world. This classic story has held such deep meaning for me and so many others for generations.”

But exactly how true is the Ruth and Boaz movie to the classic, biblical story? Read on to find out.

The story of Ruth and Boaz comes from The Book of Ruth from the Old Testament in the Bible. The story goes that Naomi suffers the death of her husband and two sons, and decides to move back to Bethlehem. She tells her two daughter-in-laws, Orpah and Ruth, to return home to their mothers. Orpah does as she is told, but Ruth—who was married to Naomi’s son Mahlon—refuses to leave Naomi’s side. Instead, Ruth accompanies Naomi to Bethlehem to care for her grieving mother-in-law.

Once in Bethlehem, Ruth goes to the barley fields to collect leftovers from the harvest (a practice known as “gleaning”) to feed herself and Naomi. Ruth encounters the owner of the field, Boaz, who treats her kindly and allows her to continue to collect from his field for the rest of the harvest. Also, because Boaz has connections to Ruth’s dead husband (or is maybe related to him?), he is obligated to marry Ruth thanks to some old-timey law. With some encouragement from Naomi, Ruth agrees to marry Boaz. But there’s an issue: There’s another male relative even closer to Ruth’s dead husband who has first dibs on Ruth’s hand in marriage. Thankfully, that dude passes on the opportunity, freeing up Boaz and Ruth to marry. They get married, have a kid, and live happily ever after.

As you can see, the Ruth & Boaz movie on Netflix is a pretty loose interpretation of the story from the Bible. In this modern-day retelling, Ruth (played by Serayah) is a foster-care-kid-turned-singer who is about to make it big in the Atlanta music scene. But she doesn’t like the direction her producer is going in, and so she quits, even though she is still under contract. Her producer Syrus (James Lee Thomas) warns that there will be severe consequences.

Here’s one of the biggest changes the movie made from the Bible story: Rather than a random tragedy, Ruth’s boyfriend Marlon (Chaundre Hall-Broomfield) is killed because of Ruth. While trying to scare Ruth with a staged car-jacking, Syrus accidentally had both Marlon and his father killed. That leaves Marlon’s mother, Naomi (Phylicia Rashad), a widow and a grieving mother. To make matters worse, Naomi’s let husband was hiding the financial trouble they were in. She loses the house and is forced to move back to their old house in Pennsylvania.

In the Bible, it’s Ruth’s pure kindness that drives her to accompany Naomi back to her hometown. In this movie, she’s motivated by a few other factors, including guilt that her actions got Marlon and his father killed, and fear that Syrus is coming for Naomi next.

Rather than getting caught “gleaning” the leftover harvest, in this version, Ruth gets a job picking grapes at the vineyard owned by Boaz (Tyler Lepley). Because this is modern times, there is no law obligating that Boaz marry Ruth. He just likes her a lot! Ruth is reluctant at first, but soon warms up to Boaz. But Syrus is still after her to complete her contract, and eventually tracks her down.

Syrus seems to be the biggest addition to the story that is not in the Bible version of Ruth and Boaz. It’s possible his character is based on Cyrus the Great, a Persian king mentioned in the Bible. But Cyrus the Great was not involved in the love story of Ruth and Boaz, and has clearly just been added to the movie to create some drama, stakes, and tension. Every story needs a villain.