This aptly named true story follows the troubles of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) battling racist bigotry in Virginia in the late 1960s. This inter-racial couple are married, and she is expecting a child when both are arrested for breaching the state's strict rules on miscegenation. After a brief incarceration, he is released then shortly after she is too and given a suspended sentence providing that they leave the county and never return. Well they do for the birth of their child, but a timely intervention from their lawyer Beazley (Bill Camp) just about saves the day before... read the rest.