Three missionary families - the Beardslees, Shellrudes, and Darrs - leave North America for West Africa in the 1950s, believing they are answering a call from God. Their children, some as young as six, are sent to the Mamou boarding school in Guinea, run by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and separated from their parents for nine months at a stretch. Survivors and parents describe in interviews the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse carried out by the all-missionary staff, and the decades of silence that followed before anyone spoke publicly. The film follows their long push to force the Alliance to investigate itself, an inquiry that became one of the first of its kind into abuse at a missionary school and pushed other denominations to open similar reviews. Directors Scott Solary and Luci Westphal let the families carry the narration themselves, tracking their case from childhood letters home to the eventual, reluctant institutional reckoning decades later.