Francis Lee’s brand new epic stars Winslet as famed fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning, whose work is credited with contributing important changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
Set in an English coastal town in the 1840s, the film will chronicle Mary’s search for common fossils, which she plans to sell to tourists to support herself and her sickly mother.
Four-time Oscar nominee Ronan plays Charlotte Murchison, a wealthy woman with dwindling health to whom Mary becomes a caregiver.
Although the two clash over their personalities and social classes, they embark on an intense romance that will change the course of their lives forever.