This book tells the story of a boy named Santiago looking for his dream. Santiago is a shepherd. He had two identical dreams in succession. In the dream, a little girl told him that there was a treasure in the pyramids of Egypt. To this end, he found a gypsy woman to interpret his dreams. But he doesn't understand. Just when he decided to forget this dream, he met King Salem in a square. King Salem gave him guidance and made him understand the importance of "fate" to people. Then the boy began his dream-seeking journey. In his journey, he crossed the strait, came to Africa and crossed the Sahara desert. On the way, he met a swindler who cheated him out of all his money, a candy merchant, a crystal merchant, an Englishman looking for alchemy, a camel driver, his true love Fatima, and the alchemist who finally led him to the pyramid. In this process, Santiago grew up step by step and "realized something that he could never understand when he was a shepherd". He began to understand the importance of "omen" and "fate", the true meaning of "Maktoum", and knew that Fatima was part of his destiny. Before he discovered the pyramids, he talked with the desert, the wind, the sun and the hand that wrote everything in the language of "mind" for a while and turned it into wind. Finally, he found the pyramid, which "will make him cry", but he didn't find any treasure there. Finally, he learned from the mouths of several refugees that the treasure was under his dream church. This book is not only a symbolic novel, but also a philosophical book that tells us how to look at dreams, life and the world.