The show, which "challenges all the cliches of the genre", follows a love story and the long compensation battle for people affected by the drug Thalidomide.
What follows is an untraditional love story, in which Lucinda, determined to transport a church made of glass from Britain to the Australian outback, bets Oscar her inheritance that he can't accomplish such a daunting feat.
Also at the National, Lucy Prebble follows up her 2009 hit Enron with The Effect - a new work about love and neuroscience starring former Doctor Who actress Billie Piper.