Richard Loving, a white construction worker in Caroline County, Virginia, falls in love with a local Black woman and family friend, Mildred Jeter. When Mildred discovers that she is pregnant, they decide to marry, but knowing that interracial marriage violates Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws, they drive to Washington, D.C. to get married in 1958. Richard then makes plans to build a house for Mildred less than a mile from her family home.