A troubled love story paved the way for Grammy-winning album Back to Back, shows the official trailer of an upcoming biopic on singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, offering a glimpse into the late singer’s life.

Dropped by the makers on Friday, the Sam Taylor-Johnson directed film’s trailer follows the developments in Winehouse’s life as she climbs the ladder of success while battling a tumultuous personal life and legal proceedings.

Titled Back to Back, the film features Marisa Abela in the lead role, while Jack O’Connell portrays Blake Fielder-Civil, the late singer's ex-husband and production assistant. The eponymous album won five Grammy awards in 2008.

The two-minute-seventeen-second-long trailer begins with Abela’s Winehouse strumming a guitar inside her room. With jazz artist Sara Vaughan and rapper Lauryn Hill as her idols, Winehouse’s only dream, from primary school, has been to compose music that makes people forget their worries.

After she falls body and soul for a man she met at a pool table in Camden, Winehouse starts dreaming of building a family. “I don’t think I was put on this Earth just to sing...I wanna be your wife, I wanna be a mum,” says the singer to Connell’s Fielder. When her hopes crash, she channels her emotional pain into producing her groundbreaking album Back to Black, which goes on to become the highest charting album from a British female artist in the US ever.

With clips from Winehouse's award-winning single Rehab playing in the background, the trailer also features Eddie Marsan as the singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, Juliet Cowan as Amy’s mother Janis, and Lesley Manville as her grandmother, Cynthia.

Fielder reportedly introduced Winehouse to drugs and their troubled relationship is often held accountable for Amy’s untimely death due to alcohol overdose in 2011.

Penned by Matt Greenhalgh with Debra Hayward as the producer, Back to Black is slated to hit theatres on May 17.