That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.