The Mission (1986)

Plotzle Original · O145 · July 25, 2026 · Adventure / Drama

Six plot descriptions for The Mission (1986). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A photographer documents refugee camps along the Turkish border but her assignment becomes complicated when she recognizes a childhood friend among the displaced families seeking asylum.
2. A Spanish Jesuit builds a mission in the South American wilderness to convert local Indians, where a former slave hunter joins him, but they must defend it when Portugal takes control of the colony.
3. A cargo pilot transports medical supplies across the Himalayas during monsoon season and develops an unlikely friendship with a monk traveling to retrieve sacred relics from a remote monastery.
4. An aging archaeologist leads his final excavation in the Yucatan Peninsula where a graduate student challenges his interpretations and he reconsiders the conclusions that defined his career.
5. A diplomat's daughter in 1970s Nairobi befriends local children despite her parents' objections and it leads to her expulsion from the international school after an incident.
6. Two brothers renovate their late father's lighthouse in Nova Scotia while reconciling over the affair that destroyed their parents' marriage and divided the family for twenty years.