Most of us would question whether we would keep the child, given that we may never have one ourselves, just as this couple does. Where this does not become a maudlin, sentimental romance is in a few realistic details. Notwithstanding the absurd good fortune that they find a baby after her two miscarriages, the story becomes increasingly complex with intersecting themes of passionate love and doing the right thing. The tension comes not from storms at sea but the ramifications of their keeping the child a secret. A newly-married couple, Tom and Isabel (Alicia Vikander), living on a remote lighthouse island off the west coast of Australia in the second decade of the twentieth century, find a baby washed ashore in a rowboat. We can't keep her." Tom (Michael Fassbender) I was ready to witness a Nicholas Sparks imitator with The Light Between Oceans rather I enjoyed a whiff of Thomas Hardy.
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