JOURNEY TO ITHACA
Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India. Matteo. . . Italian, raised in the luscious countryside around Lake Como, restless since childhood. . . has been introduced by a tutor to Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East, and it opens in him a desperate longing. Sophie. . . German, practical, worldly. . . is willing to follow him to the ends of the earth. In India, together they visit swamis, gurus, ashrams. . . always searching. Matteo is seeking spiritual enlightenment, but for Sophie fulfillment lies in earthly love. And when they meet a holy woman known as the Mother, the differences between them seem to explode.