Broadly stated, the movie Life of Pi is about the search for God and the essential role that stories play in that urge to know the unknowable, even as the unknowable remains forever unknown. Adrift on a raft in the Pacific Ocean for days on end, accompanied by a dangerous tiger, the character Pi – a kind of teenaged modern-day Job – is on a spiritual journey. He discovers that difficult circumstances that seem designed to defeat him are actually the tools for his growth.