He refuses to accept advice from any of the locals, powering through difficulties in ignorance, confident that he, as a representative of God, is always in the right. Upon arrival, the Kilanga natives greet the Price family with welcoming exuberance, but their joyful singing and bare-breasted appearance result in an aggressive rebuke from Reverend Price, who makes misguided attempts to show the Congolese people the error of their ways through fire and brimstone preaching.
From the start, the family is ill-prepared for the differences in culture and daily life awaiting them as they pack Betty Crocker cake mixes and hair care products for the journey. They are planning for a one year stay as missionaries, despite failing to attain full approval from the Mission League. In 1959, Baptist Reverend Nathan Price uproots his family from Bethlehem, Georgia, to the rural village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo.
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