FAREWELL

In the 21 days of the journey we also have an "airy" love story. August of 1929. Grace Drummond-Hay takes off with Graf Zeppelin from New York and becomes the first woman to make the round of the world. Press tycoon William Rudolph Hearst, the inspiration for "Citizen Kane" and main sponsor of the costly expedition, has assigned her as the journey's correspondent. Grace overcomes her mere 34 years and becomes a press star. Mensink composes a fascinating documentary based entirely on archival footage from the journey with narration taken from the original diaries of the heroine. These diaries not only consist of journey's notes but also the account of a thunderous love affair taking place thousands of feet above ground, as Karl Henry Von Vigant a married well known journalist is on board with whom Grace had a wild love affair. "Farewell" could be a silent romance woven with pictures of the globe in the wake of historic changes but the fact that it's not fiction makes is unsurpassable.