Walking the Camino de Santiago is a dream for many walkers, hikers, wanderers, adventurers and explorers. The Way (2010), a film produced by David Alexanian and Emilio Estevez, directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring Emilio's father, Martin Sheen (Tom), as well as Deborah Kara Unger (Sarah), James Nesbitt (Jack), Yorick van Wageningen (Joost), and even Emilio Estevez himself who plays Tom's son, Daniel, is a sincere story about grief and faith. It takes us on an inspiring journey through the pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago, which translates to "The Way of St. James", or simply put, "The Way". For most, traditionally, the pilgrimage starts at the voyagers home and ends at the foot of the shrine of the apostle St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in
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During a game of golf, Tom, an American eye doctor, gets a call that his son, Daniel has died in a terrible storm on his first day walking the Camino, and that he needs to travel to France to identify and retrieve the body. To honor his son, Tom decides suddenly to embark on the pilgrimage with his son's ashes, instead of returning back to his home in California. His intention was the make the trip alone but fate had other plans in mind, introducing him to three other walking companions who attach themselves to him against his will. Throughout the movie, each member of the small group shares their story and reasoning behind their pilgrimage and each account seems to teach the group a different lesson or outlook on life and appears to make each person more empathetic towards others. Even Tom grudgingly starts to open himself to his new friends and by the end, they all decide to travel on with him even after they visit their intended final destination at shrine of St. James, all the way to the Atlantic Ocean where they remain by Tom's side while he throws his son's remnants into the big, beautiful, crashing
During a game of golf, Tom, an American eye doctor, gets a call that his son, Daniel has died in a terrible storm on his first day walking the Camino, and that he needs to travel to France to identify and retrieve the body. To honor his son, Tom decides suddenly to embark on the pilgrimage with his son's ashes, instead of returning back to his home in California. His intention was the make the trip alone but fate had other plans in mind, introducing him to three other walking companions who attach themselves to him against his will. Throughout the movie, each member of the small group shares their story and reasoning behind their pilgrimage and each account seems to teach the group a different lesson or outlook on life and appears to make each person more empathetic towards others. Even Tom grudgingly starts to open himself to his new friends and by the end, they all decide to travel on with him even after they visit their intended final destination at shrine of St. James, all the way to the Atlantic Ocean where they remain by Tom's side while he throws his son's remnants into the big, beautiful, crashing