There have been several documentations of the experience of walking El Camino de Santiago, including a book in 2000 by Shirley MacLaine. "The Way" is written and directed by Emilio Estevez and stars his father, Martin Sheen. It is the poignant story of a grieving father who completes the journey begun by his son who dies suddenly after he has just begun the trail. You watch the travelors hike through the beautiful Spanish countryside, share meals at outdoor tables at auberges (refugios) and enter the hauntingly majestic Cathedral at Compostela. After the end of the camino at Compostela, they journey on to Moxa on the coast where the father scatters his son's ashes into the sea.
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