Waterloo Bridge

Plots: Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the war’s unspoken casualties. On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and was thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survived on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears that her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn’t killed. That those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra’s hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family’s country estate. At the start of WWII, General Roy Cronin, standing mid-span of Waterloo Bridge in London as he is set to go off to war in France, recalls that exact place in a time during WWI when he met by chance the love of his life, Myra Lester. Then, he was an Army Captain, she a member of a ballet troupe and school, their meeting during an air raid. He was set to return to the trenches in France the following day, by which time they knew that they were the ones for each other and they wanted to marry before his departure so that she could stay with his supportive upper-crust mother, Lady Margaret Cronin. But issues in their respective lives threatened a happily-ever-after for them. For him, it is the hazards of battle and the possibility that he would never make it back alive. For her, it was the ballet troupe’s strict and uncompromising head, Madame Olga Kirowa, who expected all her ballerinas to focus solely on ballet, which meant no personal life. In Myra possibly needing to choose between the troupe or Roy and something else, that something else was never a certainty.