There live a young shepherd in Andalusia, named Santiago. He is a great shepherd, he knows anything about sheep. He isn't only treat the sheep well, he also learns about the world from the sheep. He has a dream, about finding a treasure in the Pyramid of Egypt. A gypsy women tells him to pursue his dream and finds the treasure. But he doesn't believe in a gypsy until he meets the king of Salem that also tells him to after his dream. The old king also says "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". Right after that, with all his courage he sells all his sheep to travel to Tangier, in Africa. When he arrives at Tangier, a strange land to him, his money stolen, but he keeps thinking that it is a new experience to him, and it's not a strange land to him, but something new. He continues living without money, there when he finds a merchant crystal, and works for him to collect the money and turns back to Andalusia, where he