![]() ![]() Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. The tale of the fervently spiritual Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and the rebellious free spirit Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) is an elegant melodrama of magically. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. ![]() In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. ![]()
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