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When 26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed--shot with arrows as he attempted to make contact with an Indigenous group off the coast of India, one of the last communities on the planet still living in isolation--it kicked off an international debate around colonialism, the ethics of missionary work, and exploration itself. The Mission takes that conversation even deeper, drawing on Chau’s diary and video archives, his father’s struggle to live with the choices of his son, and exclusive interviews with anthropologists, and current and former missionaries to probe questions that have no easy answers.