Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter are teaming up in a movie about true love and testing fate.

Four Letters of Love, adapted by Niall Williams from his 1997 bestselling novel of the same name, also stars Gabriel Byrne, Fionn O’Shea and Ann Skelly as ordinary people caught in an extraordinary love story.

PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer, in which O’Shea and Skelly’s characters seem destined for each other, despite circumstances — including their families — getting in the way.

“I see your face,” intones O’Shea in the trailer after a chance encounter with Skelly that upends both of their lives. “For the first time in my life the world makes sense. I close my eyes and you are here. Here, and not here.”