Set in London in the 1920s, the plot will focus on the relationship between Woolf and West: Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf in 1912. Then I met Vita Sackville West, the wife of Harold Nicholson, an upper-class figure and writer. Since 1922, they have started a ten-year relationship, maintained a sexual relationship, and exchanged a lot of love letters and diaries. After the end of their relationship, the two remained friends until Woolf's death in 1941. This will be Chanya Button's second feature film since Burn Burn Burn in 2015, written by Irene Atkins, based on her stage play of the same name (which first opened in London in 1993 and landed on Broadway in 1994) and based on a love letter between Woolf and West. Eva Green and Andrea Resborough had previously approached the role of Woolf and then dropped out. The director called the film "fresh and exciting, full of creativity, passion and sexual desire". Other cas include Isabella Rossini,.