Malcolm X, faimosul lider afro-american, al cărui tată, preot, a fost ucis de Ku Klux Klan, devine gangster și ajunge la închisoare. Aici descoperă religia musulmană prin scrierile lui Elijah Muhammad. Când iese din închisoare, începe să predice învățăturile lui Elijah. Pleacă, în pelerinaj la Mecca, unde se convertește la religia musulmană. Își schimbă numele și decide să nu mai predice împotriva albilor, dându-și seama de eroarea
Un tată american călătorește în Franța pentru a recupera trupul fiului său înstrăinat care a murit în timp ce străbătea "El Camino de Santiago", din Franța la Santiago de Compostela (Spania).
Cha Seung-won and Yoo Hae-jin reunite to run a travel lodge in Europe! The two show their chemistry as they serve warm meals and memories to passing Korean travelers.
Seven well-known personalities, all with differing faiths and beliefs, put on backpacks and walking boots and, on foot and by road, set out to cover sections of the Sultans Trail - a modern-day, 2,200km pilgrimage across Eastern Europe, which starts in Vienna and ends in the historic city of Istanbul. Journalist Adrian Chiles, former politician Edwina Currie, Olympian Fatima Whitbread, comedian Dom Joly, actor Pauline McLynn, broadcaster Mim Shaikh and television presenter Amar Latif live as modern-day pilgrims, staying in basic hotels and often sleeping in shared rooms.
In the 14th century, a young merchant's daughter from southern Germany sets off on the adventurous Way of St. James to faraway Santiago de Compostela to fulfill her father's last wishes and bring his heart there. Disguised as a man, the pilgrim is hunted by pursuers set on her by her conniving brother.
In emblematic places around the world, Frédéric Lenoir, philosopher, sociologist and writer, goes to meet those who experience a spiritual quest, both religious and secular. A pilgrimage that mixes the voices of anonymous witnesses and personalities such as the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, the apneist Guillaume Néry and the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves.
