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Both are passionate about aviation and the sons of great aviators.
As youngsters, they played with paper aeroplanes and dreamed of flying together.
They also got into the habit of drawing their emblems on paper planes, as real pilots did.
Our story takes place during the Second World War.
Lewis returns from a mission with John, another British pilot.
John makes jokes about the day and the Germans, but Lewis isn’t really concentrating on what he’s saying, he’s in his mind watching the clouds.
Suddenly, John’s plane is pierced by a row of bullets, it begins to burn and a Messerschmitt BF-109 dives out of the sky and flies past Lewis.
Surprised, he put his hands back on his stick. A second burst of bullets hit his plane.
He looks in the direction of the shots, and sees a particular aircraft with Nose Art.
When she saw him, her gaze changed.
In a flashback, Karl finishes drawing his nose art on his paper aeroplane. Lewis approaches him and asks him to go and play.
Back in reality, Lewis fled the fight and dived to the ground, managing to get rid of one of his pursuers by flying very close to some trees.
Lewis then found himself alone in front of the German nose art plane. He tried to signal to it, but the plane kept firing at him.
Lewis has another vision of his childhood with Karl, when they played with their paper aeroplanes.
Karl points out the best place to launch them. They argue orally about who will have the longest flight.
Lewis is distraught and doesn’t know what to do. He goes straight up to heaven, and an alternation between flashback and reality begins.
Finally, Lewis decides to save his life by engaging the German plane and shooting it down.
Karl ‘s plane finally crashes metaphorically in the form of the paper aeroplane Karl threw as a child in the flashbacks.
