From acclaimed writer and director Jeff Nichols, Loving, tells the real-life story of an interracial couple, Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga) who fell in love and fought for their right to do so Set in 1960s Virginia, the Lovings were married in Washington, DC and later arrested for violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law. They then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown