Following the international success of his Oscar-nominated Twin Sisters, Dutch director Ben Sombogaart returns with an equally impressive and compelling drama set in the recent past. Inspired by real events – the Last Great Air Race from London to Christchurch in 1953, which was won by a KLM aircraft carrying 26 young Dutch brides-to-be on their way to join their fiancés already settled in New Zealand – it tells the story of three young women, Marjorie, Ada and Jewish Esther, who during the flight instantly forge a bond of friendship. On their arrival, the three part ways to a start a new life, yet their paths continue to cross. The shy yet sensual country girl, Ada, is headed to the West Coast to join her husband, a devout Christian she hardly knows. Sensible if staid Marjorie, is desperate to start a family as soon as she's married, and the highly vocal, outgoing Esther, who lost her entire family in the Holocaust, is determined to avoid settling down. But it is not until they reunite 50 years later, at the funeral of another fellow passenger, Frank (Rutger Hauer), that we realise just how intertwined their lives have been. This is an elevating story of post-war antipodean migration. Aided by the warm, generous performances of a splendid cast, the film never looses sight of the very human drama at its core.