In a sense Percival acts as a mirror in which each character sees his own ideal image. They meet for dinner on the eve of Percival’s departure for India. The central event in the film is a meeting of Bernard, Neville, Rhoda, Jinny, Susan and Louis at restaurant in London in 1920. The presentation of the thoughts of these six characters, which cover their development from child to adult, is a challenge to confront one’s own life. Their perceptions and feelings move back and forth through the narrative like waves. Through their thoughts the intensity of childhood, the optimism of youth and the disillusion of later years are portrayed. The six main characters are constantly trying to recapture the feeling of harmony they knew as children. The film is based on Virginia Woolf’s book “The Waves”(1931). When he dies through an accident in India the group falls apart. They meet each other in a restaurant at a farewell dinner for Percival, who is leaving for India. With the book THE WAVES by Virginia Woolf as point of departure, the film follows six characters trying to recapture the feeling of harmony they knew as children. Free film adaptation of the novel The Waves (Virginia Woolf).
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