A character's belief is tested by suffering, doubt, or the cruelty of the world.
After his daughter's murder, Mack receives a mysterious note inviting him to the shack where she died — where he encounters God in a form nothing like what he expected.
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.