The Navigation Log — Martin Corrick

TOM AND WILL are identical twins, born as the church bells ring out the armistice of 1918. Largely ignored by their preoccupied mother and adulterous father, the brothers share a close bond through their rambunctious boyhood, but have gone their separate ways by the time the Second World War casts its shadow across England. Tom is a Spitfire pilot, entangled in the romantic pursuit of a tempestuous female flier, and William is a teacher at an unorthodox elementary school. As Tom patrols the skies, dogfighting high above the coast of Kent, William accompanies his students in a lunatic pilgrimage across the bomb-strewn countryside below. It is only when they separately approach the majestic Canterbury Cathedral that the twins' paths explosively converge one last, unforgettable time.