The Light Between Oceans trailer, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander

Sweeping seaside vistas and a pair of this year’s Oscar nominees are center stage in the first trailer for Derek Cianfrance’s adaptation of The Light Between Oceans.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander — both up for Academy Awards this weekend for Steve Jobs and The Danish Girl, respectively — star as a lighthouse keeper and his wife who live on a remote Australian island just after World War I. When the couple discovers a boat carrying a dead man and a baby, they decide to raise the child as their own, only to discover later that the baby’s mother could still be alive.

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Rachel Weisz also stars in the period drama, based on M.L. Stedman’s bestselling novel of the same name. Disney and DreamWorks have set a Sept. 2 release date for the film.

Watch the trailer, which first debuted The Guardian, above.