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During a culture-shocked exchange time in Japan, 15-year-old Lisa Dempster's imagination is ignited by the story of the henro michi, an arduous 1,200-kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Properly suiting the intimate view of herself as a dusty, travel-worn explorer (well, one day), she assures to return to Japan and walk the henro michi, some way, when humanely possible. Fast-forward 13 years, and Lisa's life is significantly dissimilar to what she pictured it would be. Severely depressed, socially withdrawn, overweight, on the dole and coping with her mum, she is 28 and miserable. And then, completely by chance, the henro michi comes home into her life, through the reserve at her local library. It's an indicator. She makes a decision then and there to go back to Japan almost immediately: to walk the henro michi, and walk herself back again to health. Brushing away the obstacles that other folks might find overwhelming - the 1,200km of mountainous landscape, the sweltering Japanese warmer summer months, the fact she's no money and has never done a multiday hike before - Lisa is determined to walk the pilgrimage - or pass away trying.
