where is the light between two oceans set
The Light Between Oceans (film) Tom Sherbourne, a traumatised and withdrawn hero of World War I, is hired as a lightkeeper at Janus Rock, a lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia. He falls in love with a local girl, Isabel Graysmark, and they marry in 1921. Isabel loses two pregnancies in three years, and fears she may never become a mother.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea "Between the devil and the deep blue sea" is an idiom meaning a dilemmaâ€”i.e., to choose between two undesirable situations (equivalent to "between a rock and a hard place").