A character is compelled by a sense of higher purpose or mission they cannot ignore.
Christian flees the City of Destruction and travels toward the Celestial City, facing every temptation, doubt, and enemy the soul encounters on its journey toward God.
In 1910 Appalachia, a young woman leaves comfort to teach in a mountain mission school and confronts poverty, disease, and her own faith in ways she never anticipated.
A young Andalusian shepherd follows an omen to the Egyptian pyramids, learning along the way that the treasure he seeks has been within reach all along — and that the journey is the point.
Elizabeth Thatcher leaves a privileged life in the East to teach in a frontier coal-mining town — where she discovers that love and faith look nothing like she imagined.