Cianfrance Navigates "The Light Between Oceans"

Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine," "The Place Beyond the Pines") is set to direct the drama "The Light Between Oceans" reports Deadline.

An adaptation of author M.L. Stedman's debut novel , the story follows a lighthouse keeper and his wife living on a remote Australian island in the years following the end of World War I. The pair are soon faced with a moral dilemma when a boat washes up on their with a dead man and a two-year-old. They raise the child as their own with devastating consequences.

David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford will produce the film.