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An American doctor travels to the French Pyrenees to retrieve the remains of his son, who died in a storm at the very start of his pilgrimage along the Way of St. James (the Camino de Santiago). Driven by profound grief and a desire to get to know better the son with whom he had long lacked understanding, he decides to walk the Way in his son's place, leaving behind his comfortable, orderly life in California.