Treks of my years

GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS PLAY A REAL-LIFE COUPLE WHO RELIVE MOMENTS FROM THEIR PAST ON AN IMPROMPTU ADVENTURE SPARKED BY LOSING THEIR HOME

- REVIEWS BY DAMON SMITH

LIFE is a haphazard journey, interspersed with unexpected diversions.

For Raynor Winn and husband Moth, one of these detours was an impromptu trek along the 630-mile South West Coast Path after the couple became homeless.

The UK's longest National Trail snakes around the English shoreline from Minehead to Poole.

The Winns' long-distance odyssey inspired a best-selling memoir entitled The Salt Path. Award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott makes her feature film debut with screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz's sure-footed adaptation of real-life events, casting Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as resilient spouses who entrust their fates to Mother Nature.