British Film Festival Los Angeles 2009

What was she burying with such care...long, long ago...the old woman in white, there on the Indian hillside? And how did a young Australian girl happen to uncover what had been buried, so many lifetimes before? Tao of the Traveller is a film celebrating the great spiritual traditions and the mystical poets of East and West: the worlds of Rumi and Tagore, of Emily Dickenson and Saint Theresa, through one young woman's remarkable journey. A Quest is beckoning. But this is no Fairytale. The Journey is real. And the Traveller is you.In the company of this extraordinary, ordinary girl we travel across the icy mountains and lakes of New Zealand, the ancient rain forests and seas of Australia, and the villages and mango woods of India, as she discovers and experiences pathways she barely knew existed. 'We think sometimes, that the deepest secrets of life can only be uncovered in some secret monastery. We think, sometimes, that the answers can only be found at the end of a long and difficult journey to a land somewhere near the roof of the world.We think sometimes that the greatest adventure, the most meaningful quest can only be found by someone not bound by an ordinary life. For this ordinary girl, the journey was higher and deeper, harder and easier, more friendly and more alone than anything she could have imagined...'It changed everything for her.And she hadn't even been looking.