Camino is a love story, a tale of first love that is never forgotten, that demands nothing and yet moves mountains. It is an adventure of the human heart; the crossroads where the wellbeing of the body and the soul, pain and bliss, faith and reason, serenity and fear, light and darkness converge. All this is possible without departing from the real world, since even the world of dreams and nightmares experienced by Camino belong to reality. What goes on in our heads while we sleep exists too, and it has strong links to what happens during our waking hours.

This is a film about characters made of flesh and blood, with their thoughts, who see life from different stances, whose points of view are sometimes so diametrically opposed that coexistence necessarily strikes up contradictions between them, affecting both sides. All except Camino, an extraordinary, resplendent being who displaying a wholly unsuspected maturity takes the most fair and wise determination: the quest for true love in the face of the direst adversity.

After learning of an unusual sequence of events, I set out on an exhaustive search for documentation on many other cases of saintly lives and on the true mode of operation within the Opus Dei which ended up in a fascinating research project on the subject of people´s innermost feelings.

In-depth knowledge of the testimonies and experiences of others who think quite differently to ourselves is an enriching experience when, far from attempting to prove them wrong, we try to get into their shoes. This is how I have become convinced that I could have ended up being any of the characters in this film: any one of them at all!

I hope I have succeeded in conveying all the things that those stories have suggested to me, devoid of stereotype and prejudice and leaving plenty of room for the spectator. My own position is in fact just the opposite of what the title, Camino, seems to imply, on the lines of pointing to the path others should follow, singling anyone out or deciding who is right or wrong. Nothing could be farther from my intention with this film.

The only criticism in this tale is of those who are intent on preaching to others, imposing their views and beliefs - whether to praise Saint Benedict, to speak the local dialect or to support their favourite football team.

For me, Camino is a story that is packed with life, which in turn serves as an overwhelming argument in the struggle against sorrow.

Javier Fésser