This film documents in great detail a journey of Chris’ challenging walk from Sevilla to Santiago de Compostela on Vía de la Plata and the Camino Sanabrés in June and July 2017. While walking alone across Spain he was shooting this documentary himself.
The film consists of two distinct, but parallel stories that are sometimes interweaved simultaneously or separated. The first story tells the viewers about their plausible experience if they decide to walk across 1000 km of western Spain. In the second story Chris provides meticulous narratives and storytelling he had experienced on the way to Santiago.
Silent and lonely struggles accompany Chris and other walkers since the first day of walking. They struggle with the Extremadura summer extreme heat wave and oppressive monster sun chasing and drying out all their thoughts and neutralizing their minds. Moreover, Chris wrestles with an inconvenient warning, and other walkers wrestle with a long solitary walk.
Is Chris a madman traveling across Spain on foot, and fighting an imaginary enemy?
As they walk long-distance alone they steadily discover themselves anew. Seamlessly toggling between past and present they become aware of the things they had conscientiously hidden and forgotten in their life.
The film also depicts constant changes taking place in landscape and within us while walking el camino.
This documentary film was shot using a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone.