Confused and depressed after her husband's death, Zoe leaves Los Angeles for Cluny, France, to visit her university friend, and ends up on the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James, a popular pilgrimage route. Martin has a clear plan and a mercantile interest in the Camino, and he has a lot of unresolved problems. ‘The road will change you,’ said one experienced pilgrim. These two will meet on it and walk their very different paths to eventually understand everything and learn to love again