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In this film, the main character that is also the director, walks 250km to Fatima, a religious Portuguese sanctuary. Starting with a ritual that has been repeated in other films, he drinks wine from a silver cup in a hill near Oporto, where he starts his journey. His path is very unique, he has no definitive religion, he isn't catholic, Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu, his path has no borders. In his journey he faces the violence of the machine, hundreds of cars and trucks travel at high speed towards him, it is a documentary about a character that the director doesn't know, because the path is also unknown, as well as his destiny, it is a meta and physical path, a clash and a communion between the “feet” and the “spirit”. At his arrival, a strange episode isn't shown by the cameras, before the final shot, an Indian family greets the character and offers him food and drink, the character refuses and they leave with a smile without turning their back on him, in a strange sign of respect. As soon as the final scene approaches nobody else talks with the pilgrim. In the end, other two characters appear, they are his friends and also indefinite, one brings the water, that she accidentally throws in the steps, the second character enters to wash the pilgrim's feet. This scene, is enigmatic and it is some kind of a presage. Although it have been built under symbolic bases, what does it represent in the reality is impossible to understand. This film was built under the feet of the spirit, and the flesh has traversed the road with joy.
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