In her early forties, Chandi Wyant's world implodes in the wake of a divorce and traumatic illness. Downtrodden yet determined to revive the passionate spirit that compelled her, when younger, to embrace life by following her heart, she sets out on Italy's historic pilgrimage route, the Via Francigena, to walk for forty days to Rome.

Weakened by her recent illness, she walks over the Apennines, through the valleys of Tuscany, and beside busy highways on her 425-kilometer trek equipped with a nineteen-pound pack, two journals, and three pens.

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