Light Between Oceans - Trailer

  • 20 May 2016

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The Light Between Oceans comes as a new drama film and sees the themes of love and loss explored throughout its emotional narrative. Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and Isabel (Alicia Vikander) are a couple who are living off the coast of Australia post World War I and are very much in love. However tragedy strikes when Isabel loses the child that she is carrying, which leads to an emotional torture that leaves them both heart broken. In this mist of sadness, a light of hope comes in the form of a baby girl, who is washed up on their beach in a boat with her dead father. Isabel sees this as a gift from God and pleads to Tom that they should raise her as their own child.

Years pass and when the family visit the mainland, Isabel shows of the child whom they've named Lucy to the other members of the community. It is here that they meet a woman who lost her child and husband at sea, this immediately causes problems for the family as they have to decide whether to keep the child or return her to her rightful mother.