In Emilio Estevez's The Way, two notable characters, Tom and Sarah, experience their purpose for the pilgrimage as a route to restore their mental well-being. To begin with, Tom and Sarah are continuously fighting their internal battle of dealing with the grief of their deceased children. In fact, Sarah shows that she overcomes her grief when she says that her pilgrimage “was never about quitting these things [cigarettes],” (The Way 2010). Sarah is trying to reveal that her purpose was to become healthy mentally rather than physically. Similarly, Tom overcomes his grief when he washes away the remains of his son’s ashes in the water. In Tom’s perspective this represents the end of his grief as he lets of his son. Secondly, Tom and Sarah are