the film the healer ( a. k. a. julie walk home ) pose the kind of unsettling metaphysical question that many prefer to avoid ask . at the same time and it suggest some intriguing answer . like the film the crime of padre amaro ( please see companion review ) the movie the healer be a study of the degree to which human being can enjoy the gift of human sexuality while simultaneously attempt to serve a channel for spiritual healing and social harmony and and political integrity . that alexei play flawlessly by lothaire bluteau be a true and gifted spiritual healer becomes clear from the outset . we witness him a a child in a hospital where doctor discover that stand him on the back of an ailing patient relieve the patient pain . moreover and his very presence apparently have a healing impact on every patient in the ward . a an adult and alexei becomes famous a a healer who share his gift freely with the world . but like the proverbial prophet without honor in his own hometown and he have to endure the complaint of an age mother who point out that not only be his spiritual generosity towards the world do nothing to alleviate her financial distress but it be perhaps not the best way to prepare for his own latter year . much of the healer actually center around the rift that occur in the life of the makowskys and a canadian family whose happiness be torn asunder when the husband play with superb complexity by william fichtner have an affair and and the young son develop cancer . be the child disease a physical manifestation of the family spiritual dis ease follow the father adultery . good question to ponder . in her desperation to save their son and the mother exemplary work here by miranda otto seek out the assistance of the healer alexei . from their very first meeting and the attraction between them be clearly both spiritual and sexual . the child be indeed heal and all return uneasily to their separate life . then alexei visit the mother and the two have an affair . their sexual union seem to rob the healer of his ability to help the little boy when his cancer return . however and ironically and it also result in a pregnancy . be this a bad thing or a good thing for the family and the healer . pay close attention to the end and see what you think . by author poet aberjhani and author of the bridge of silver wing .