Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the Iives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better Iife in New ZeaIand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girI, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the Iong flight 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 play a large roIe in each of their lives. Upon arrivaI, they part ways to start their new Iives, but their paths continue to cross with chance meetings resuIting in adultery, betrayal and near tragedy leading up to a reunion fifty years Iater. |