The country's best archer, Tetsuya, who now lives as a humble carpenter in a village, accepts the challenge of another archer who comes from afar... Tetsuya teaches the stranger as well as a local boy the philosophy of archery.

In The Archer, Paulo Coelho outlines the path of the bow, which corresponds not only to archery, but to all aspects of life, and reveals the virtues that should distinguish it.

 The path of the bow is the path

 of joy and enthusiasm,

 of perfection and mistakes,

 of technique and instinct.