it all very simple . jake go to prison and and spend five year with the con and the chess master . they get compassionate about his history of loss and failure and and utterly misery that he live on because of his belief in his mastery of small trick and control of the rule of small crook . they decide to give jake the ultimate freedom represent from his innermost fear and from what he believe to be himself . for that and they take him on a trip where he get to let go all the fear and all the pride and all the hope to be reborn a true master of his will . it a clever movie about the journey of illumination and about the infinite gamble and game that we do with and within ourselves . positive and no doubt .