Dear Mrs. Lindbergh

As a girl, Ruth is fascinated with the daring stunts of barnstorming aviators. As the wife of a bush-league airmail pilot, she learns how to navigate Henry's routes and accompanies him on the flights that crisscross midwestern farm communities, a task patterned after her idol, Anne Lindbergh. Pregnant with their first child, Ruth reluctantly gives up flying, vowing to return as soon as feasible. The birth of their second child interrupts her plans, and when their daughter dies in infancy, shattering Ruth's fragile psyche, she vows just as fervently never to fly again. The promise is kept until, in their eighties, Ruth and Henry take flight once more, only to disappear without leaving a clue as to their whereabouts.