Night flight

Knife in hand, they defied the earth's gravity and the raging elements.

Exupéry's novel Night Flight, which draws on his personal experiences as an airmail pilot in South America, is about the brave men who flew machines in the wooden days of air travel, but also about those who sent them on their dangerous journeys. The director of Riviere Commercial Flights in Buenos Aires eagerly awaits the trio of planes due to arrive overnight from Patagonia, Chile and Paraguay. However, his carefully planned schedule is disrupted by a storm of unprecedented proportions, which causes him to lose contact with one of the pilots. Can the experienced Fabien, on whom the fate of his radio navigator depends, find his way out of the storm and land safely in the dark? And is it even worth risking pilots' lives on night flights?

Exupéry's second novel became an international bestseller and was adapted into a film just two years after its publication.