hallucinogenic alienation and leave wing schmaltz during a trek on ancient christian pilgrimage route to santiago de compostela and shrine of santiago matamoros saint jam the moor killer . one plot line revolve around two young men of arabic descent who speak french and their relationship with their traveling companion . these people be indigenous french equally étranger to christianity or at any rate very open mind indeed . another theme concern three old sibling who must go on this particular pilgrimage in order to collect an inheritance . one of these be a state support alcoholic who receive no ascertainable spiritual or social benefit from the effort . another be an uptight conservative sans social conscience who magically awaken to his plight through no other mean than simply suffer a bit of discomfort and outward bound type group bond . the third be a dedicated socialist teacher well verse in christian baiting . at a late date she be apparently ready to screw the rich ( a discuss earlier in a tender moment ) via eurabic alliance bolster by her christian mother money . the movie be intersperse with inchoate dream sequence mean to rival christian grandeur but merely succeed in remind this viewer of the increasingly banal nihilism of european elite . clever plot full of modernist irony and beautiful scenery of france and spain and and multicultural sentimentality only resident of the wealthy parisian arrondissements could love .