Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the Iives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWll Holland for what they hope wiII be a better Iife in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensuaI farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big famiIy, and Esther, a HoIocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the Iong fIight taking them to their waiting husbands, who have already settled in Christchurch. On the Iight the women also meet Frank, a dashing young man who will pIay a Iarge role in each of their lives. Upon arrivaI, they part ways to start their new lives, but their paths continue to cross with chance meetings resuIting in adultery, betrayal and near tragedy Ieading up to a reunion fifty years Iater. |