The Hunger Games lead actress Jennifer Lawrence is coming on board the upcoming romantic drama Ends of the Earth for the lead role.

The story “follows the controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter, which destroys the empire they built together,” according to Variety.

Lawrence will play Lydie, who is “an educated, headstrong woman who was adopted as a girl by her aunt Virginia and uncle Ernest. She later becomes their adopted daughter and eventually becomes Ernest’s wife. Urging him to raise workers’ wages and give them unpredecented access to medical care, she earns the nickname the ‘princess of the prairies.'”

The Weinstein Company is in final negotiations to acquire the film.