Coelho, Paulo

A stranger arrives in the remote village of Viscos carrying a notebook and eleven gold bars and searching for answers to his past and upsetting the village's peaceful existence.

While on a quest for knowledge, Brida, a young Irish girl, encounters two individuals who teach her about magic; a forest hermit, who helps her to realize the goodness in the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance and pray to the moon; but while this knowledge soaks in Brida struggles to balance her priorities.

Tells the story of an Andalusian shepherd boy who follows his dream and meets an alchemist.

Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures found within himself.