A lesbian love story.
Reaching For The Moon is a 1950s period piece that recounts the mid-life years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero – where she would also fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares (butched up to the hilt by beautifully handsome Brazilian TV star Gloria Pires). Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her.