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In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, Emily, a young Canadian woman living in Spain, seeks to understand a tragedy in her recent past involving two friends, along the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail. Emily recreates her friends' actions from that fateful summer, piecing together what she knows of their fractured relationship. As Emily peels back the layers of the friends she thought she knew, she must also come to terms with her own role in the tragedy and with the secrets that remain - even at the risk of enormous personal loss.