EditOn Chesil Beach (2017)

England, 1962. A girl meets a boy and they fall in love at first sight. However, life is never so simple neither two hearts follow a straight path. Based on Ian McEwan’s 2007 Booker Prize-nominated novella “On Chesil Beach”, the film reveals how two, as different as they could be, worlds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward (Billy Howle) collide, but not to prove that love is the answer for everything. Sometimes love is the problem. For everything. These recent university graduates Florence - a classical musician from a wealthy family, and Edwards - a provincial boy with a ‘disordered’ mother, make a beautiful beginning. Then? An unexpected inability to consummate their marriage tears them apart. Is this the end?