Ever since my Austrian friend Rob Krenn walked the Camino de Santiago in 2003, I have been interested in this centuries-old pilgrimage. It forms the basis of this beautiful movie, filmed entirely in Spain and France along the actual Camino de Santiago, in which Tom, an American doctor, comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino.
Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his lost son, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his California life behind. Armed only with his son’s backpack and guidebook, he begins the 800km historical pilgrimage but soon discovers that he won’t be alone on this journey – he meets other pilgrims from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives.
From the hardship experienced along “The Way”, an unlikely group of misfits are bonded and Tom begins to learn the difference between “The life we live and the life we choose.”
