Reese Witherspoon is in talks to star in “The Good Lie”, a Philippe Falardeau-directed piece that’ll serve as a real change-of-pace from the rom-com queen.

The Hollywood Reporter says the flick “centers on a young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the U.S. with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to his new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.”

Guessing Shania Twain need not apply for soundtrack duties?

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer produce.