On the Camino Francès, the busiest route to reach Santiago de Compostela from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a tiny point stands out on the horizon.
Closer, we discover a body twisted by osteoarthritis and kyphoscoliosis that gives Susan Morris, 70, this rickety look.
Like 250,000 people each year, she embarked on this 900 kilometer pilgrimage.
A challenge that makes her son proud, she admits.
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But for what reasons do we feel the need to inflict these forty-two days of suffering on ourselves?
What drives her to go to the end of her weak strengths?
What light is she looking for at the end of the road?
Australian documentary filmmaker Noel Smyth and New Zealand producer Fergus Grady try to understand it, accompanying him, like five other pilgrims, to the tomb of the apostle Saint James the Greater.
The path to follow
"When you walk for days and days, sometimes getting lost, not crossing any
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