to be about something

You can say that a book, film, etc. is about something.

What is the story about?

You can say that something is, has, or has got to do with something else.

What's that got to do with it?

The condition has to do with genetics.
A lot of it is to do with attitude.
If something relates to something else, that means that it is connected to that
other thing in some way.

That relates to what I was saying earlier about the need for reform.
Concern is a formal way of saying that something is about something else.

The film concerns the complicated nature of marriage.

Cover, deal with, and treat are normally used in connection with presenting facts.
Treat is more common in the passive with this meaning.

We will cover the passive voice later in the course.

We will deal with the use of antidepressants in chapter three.
There is too much variety in how the election results are treated by different
newspapers.
If a piece of writing refers to something, it mentions it but does not necessarily
give much detail about it.

I briefly referred to this study in my introduction.

If a piece of writing discusses something, it goes into detail about it and
analyses it from different points of view.

The final chapter will discuss the relevance of these findings for clinical
practice.