The Fellowship Of The Bridge

In 1950, in southwestern rural Ontario, two boys who had lost their fathers in the 2nd world war are on their way to swim in the river. They rescue a girl who has fallen in. She and her brother have moved into the farm across the river. They decide to design and build a bridge between their farms. The bridge is discovered by an older boy who threatens to destroy it. The four children, joined by a younger girl who has also lost her father in the war, inspired by Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring, which was published during the War, form a secret Fellowship to save the bridge. In the bully's attempt to sabotage the bridge, one of the builders- and the bully- is injured, and his sister must fetch her father, who was a medic in the war, over the half-finished bridge to rescue them. A summer cloudburst has raised the height of the river and threatens the bridge, already weakened by the attempted sabotage. Will it stand?