Derek Cianfrance’s THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS Trailer Starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander

Entertainment One posted up the first trailer for Derek Cianfrance‘s (Blue Valentine, A Place Beyond the Pines) The Light Between Oceans starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz. The film, based on the best-selling novel by M.L Stedman, features Fassbender and Vikander as a couple who discover a boat washed ashore with a dead man and a two-month old baby who they decide to raise as their own.

The Light Between Oceans opens in theaters September 2nd.

From acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, (Blue Valentine, A Place Beyond the Pines), and based on the extraordinary best-selling novel from M.L Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, is a beautiful yet heart-breaking story of love and sacrifice.

On a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander), discover a boat washed ashore carrying a dead man and a two-month old baby. Rescuing the infant, they make the decision to raise her as their own but the consequences of their choice prove to be devastating.