In the 1930s, Leonora Carrington broke with the social norms of her time and joined the Surrealist movement. In Paris, she meets great artists such as Salvador Dalí and André Breton, but it is her stormy love affair with the painter Max Ernst that leads her on a journey to herself. Between art, passion and inner demons, Leonora has to assert herself in a world full of upheavals. With the beginning of the Second World War, she fled to Mexico, where she found her freedom and her own voice as an artist. LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT takes a unique look at the fascinating life story of the British artist Leonora Carrington. As one of the most important artists of Surrealism, she is one of Mexico's most popular painters, but for a long time her life's work went largely unnoticed in her native Great Britain and the international art world. Today, Leonora Carrington is one of the world's best-selling artists, along with Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe. Olivia Vinall powerfully embodies the internally torn Leonora Carrington, at her side you can see the German acting star Alexander Scheer as Max Ernst. The film by directing duo Thor Klein and Lena Vurma is based on the bestseller »Leonora« by Elena Poniatowska, which was published in Germany under the title »Frau des Windes«.