Bryce Cortney

Born into a working-class family in 1949 in Basel, Switzerland – by the time that Bryce completed elementary schooling, his father, a self-made man left his wife for another woman. In the early seventies Bryce, after he completed his formation as a pilot left Switzerland, cruising down to Cape Town, where he was confronted with apartheid, before heading across to Australia where he worked as an airline pilot, at the same time living in the Victorian goldfields. He returns to Switzerland after the tragic event of 911, wanting to spend time with his aging father, accompanying him on his last journey.