The Mission reveals the seldom-told history of Cambodia's devastating genocide by uncovering the secrets of a woman desperate to survive its brutality while interweaving the perspective of a modern-day Mormon missionary on her quest for spiritual truth. Martha Benson is a 22-year-old missionary called to serve in Cambodia in 2012 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Davi Sat is a 30-year-old woman living in Cambodia during the violent Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975. Their alternating perspectives interweave the past and present. Davi witnesses the revolution that destroys her home while Martha encounters a modern Cambodia, devastated by poverty and the corruption left in the wake of Pol Pot and a genocide that destroyed a quarter of the population. Their unlikely paths cross in a bizarre twist of fate leaving Martha questioning the purpose of her mission and the depth of her faith.