“Vita & Virginia” will hit theaters stateside August 23. Chanya Button’s drama is inspired by a true story and depicts the friendship and love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

Written by Button, the pic follows the influential literary figures’ evolving relationship. It was Sackville-West, an author and socialite, who served as inspiration for “Orlando,” Woolf’s 1928 novel about a poet who changes sex from a man to a woman.

Elizabeth Debicki (“Widows”) plays Woolf in the film and Gemma Arterton (“Their Finest”) Sackville-West.

“Bringing Woolf’s relationship with Vita to life makes a case for Woolf as one of literature’s inaugural punks,” Button told us. “Virginia and her contemporaries in the Bloomsbury Group share more with David Bowie and Tracey Emin than they really do with many of their contemporaries. Drawing these parallels was incredibly exciting to me.”

The “Burn Burn Burn” filmmaker continued, “I think the past has a huge amount to teach us about how we can approach the future. Vita and Virginia’s attitudes toward love, marriage, sexuality, and mental health were extremely progressive. So the world of our film is one that feels strikingly resonant with our own,” she emphasized.

“Vita & Virginia” made its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and opens in the UK and Ireland July 5.