![]() ![]() She has not been in contact with the Sherbournes for over eighteen years, as they had agreed not to contact her for the rest of her girlhood. In 1950, 27-year-old Lucy Grace Rutherford, accompanied by her baby son Christopher, tracks Tom down. Lucy has at last begun to bond with her biological mother and maternal grandfather, who agrees to call her "Lucy Grace" as a compromise. Moved by their gesture and reminded by Franz's words to always forgive others, Hannah offers to speak on their behalf at trial. Isabel jumps on the boat and confesses everything. Just as Tom is about to be taken by boat to Albany for trial, Isabel reads a letter which Tom had sent her, confiding he had not deserved his happiness with Lucy and how carrying the blame will assuage his guilt for surviving the war. Hannah promises to return Lucy to Isabel as soon as Isabel testifies against Tom. She is found and returned to Hannah, but the events lead Hannah to realize that Lucy now belongs to Isabel. Lucy runs away in an effort to return to the Lighthouse and her "real parents", and a search team is sent to rescue her. Little Lucy is returned to her biological family but initially rejects and hates them, due to having no memory of them whatsoever. The police are unable to draw an answer from the distraught Isabel as to whether or not Franz was dead when they discovered him. Isabel is enraged that Tom is willing to give Lucy away and breaks off contact with him after his arrest. Accused of murdering Franz, Tom takes full responsibility, claiming he bullied Isabel into complying. One of Tom's co-workers recognizes the rattle on a reward poster and reports him to the police. Tormented by his conscience, Tom sends Hannah a small grey rattle that was found with Lucy on the boat. He jumped into a rowboat and fled with his baby daughter. They learn that Franz was a German, that Hannah's marrying him so soon after the First World War was controversial, and that he had been accosted in the street by a drunken crowd. He writes anonymously to Hannah to tell her that her husband is dead but that her infant daughter is safe, loved and well cared for.įour years later, Tom, Isabel and young Lucy, who have all enjoyed an idyllic life together, attend a ceremony for the anniversary of Tom's lighthouse, and they strike up a conversation with Hannah and her sister, Gwendolyn "Gwen" Potts. Tom fears that little Lucy may very well be Hannah's missing infant daughter. He buries the man on the island, and the couple names the infant girl Lucy.Īs Tom and Isabel are about to have Lucy christened on the mainland, Tom sees a woman, Hannah Roennfeldt, kneeling in front of a grave bearing the names of Franz Johannes Roennfeldt and his baby daughter Grace Ellen, who were lost at sea on the day they found Lucy, 26 April 1923. However, Isabel fears that the baby will almost certainly be sent to an orphanage and persuades Tom to pass the baby off as their own daughter, to which he grudgingly agrees. Tom knows that he is required by law to report the discovery. Shortly after Isabel's second miscarriage, a rowboat containing a dead man and a newborn baby girl washes ashore near the lighthouse. Isabel loses two pregnancies over two years and fears she may never become a mother. He falls in love with a local girl, Isabel Graysmark, and they marry. In December 1918, Tom Sherbourne – a traumatised and withdrawn hero of World War I – is hired as a lightkeeper at Janus Rock, a lighthouse off the coast of Australia. This is the last film to be released by Touchstone before it went defunct. It received mixed reviews and grossed $26 million worldwide. The film was released in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2016, by Entertainment One Films. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures in North America on September 2, 2016, being the last DreamWorks Pictures film distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through their 2011 output deal. The Light Between Oceans had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2016, where it competed for the Golden Lion. Years later, the couple discover the child's true parentage and are faced with the moral dilemma of their actions. The film tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who rescue and adopt an infant girl adrift at sea. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, India and Canada, the film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, and Jack Thompson. The Light Between Oceans is a 2016 romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by M.
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